A lot of what the government does is hard to quantify and involves complicated tasks that inevitably require bureaucratic coordination and, yes, inefficiency.
I hate articles like this. Acting like 1) we haven’t seen the US run like a business before (where was the NYT in 2016?) and 2) compromising on the entire claim with a hedgy “well, parts of it are OK, but definitely let’s not go too far.”
There should be ways that managers across government bureaucracy can learn from others’ successes. There are surely some ideas that can be imported from business — ideas that NASA and the Postal Service can pick up from SpaceX and FedEx.
Yeah, we’ve also seen what running USPS as a business has done to it. Such a sloppy and weak argument. NYT has definitely fallen a long way.
I hate articles like this. Acting like 1) we haven’t seen the US run like a business before (where was the NYT in 2016?) and 2) compromising on the entire claim with a hedgy “well, parts of it are OK, but definitely let’s not go too far.”
Yeah, we’ve also seen what running USPS as a business has done to it. Such a sloppy and weak argument. NYT has definitely fallen a long way.