Monday Read Board
Just some things you may not have seen:
- Expansion Management Magazine has Pittsburgh in its 2007 list of 50 Hottest Cities for business expansion. See also the article.
- Business Expansion Magazine lists Pennsylvania in the top 10 for new manufacturing branches and also in new manufacturing startups among states.
- Think American Steel is a dead industry. Alabama and Louisiana are competing for a new steel plant that will cost $2 billion to build. The NYT also looks at the steel industry more broadly.
- Think the North Shore Connector is expensive? Seattle is looking at a $3.4 billion dollar cost for a tunnel. They are actually going to have a referendum on it, but before you wish there had been a referendum for the NSC; if the Seattle tunnel plan fails they do not save the money, they just build a $2.4 billion dollar bridge.
- Via the Baltimore Sun: Statistics-based management is coming to Maryland government. Hmm.
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is doing some regional introspection of its own. Anything sound familiar?
2 Comments:
The CitiStats movement is seductive. Whatever counts should get counted. Accountability has its dark side, though.
Harvard Business Online lists the folly of accountabilism one of the 20 breakthrough ideas of the year.
I will have to use that word... but absolutely, scientific management has its limits.
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