Ineffectual Spartan management of the former empire after 404 aided the revival of Athenian influence.
In testimony prepared for a hearing on Thursday by the Senate subcommittee on transportation appropriations, Mr. Gunn said: "The company had lost credibility on many fronts and its management structure was ineffectual.
The mining boom is over, and macroeconomic management has been rendered ineffectual by obsessive focus on budget deficits, with the result that unemployment is rising and real incomes are falling for many workers.
Management was seen as ineffectual, and consequently few were regularly consulting their GP despite on-going problems.
But in a country used to "fix it, flog it or shut it" management, Mr Smith's New England twang reeked of a genteel, ineffectual era.
A more positive interpretation would be that the ineffectual attempts to destroy Ukip show the growing fragility of the carefully crafted management of what is sometimes called "the national conversation".
But the company has new management, is slowing its rapid expansion scheme and is overhauling an ineffectual and expensive merchandising plan.
That has provoked criticism that his management style leans too far in the other direction — so detached as to be ineffectual.
Under Ba'athist management, it has gradually become yet weaker, losing card after strategic card - with Hizbollah, a few now ineffectual Palestinian factions and a much-reduced military presence in Lebanon just about the last.
