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Friday, June 18. 2010

From a post at Coyote:

I work with a lot of very bright, very good people in government. The problem is that their incentives and information are awful. How would you behave if for 20 years your main feedback was to be criticized for violating minor procedures or trying new things? How would you have any understanding of business if you grew up in the bizarro world of government budgeting and accounting? This is the problem with government � not that it is full of bad stupid people, but it takes good smart people and incentivizes them to do counter-productive things.

Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 12:46 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I worked for the Oregon DMV for ten years. It was the worst experience in an organization I've ever had. Everything is back-asswards.
Once we were actually told to try and think out of the box. When I did I was told that what I proposed could not be done because it was not in the manual.

#1 Rick on 2010-06-18 20:58 (Reply)

ROTFL!

At least the DMV wasn't as extreme as Mao, who invited dissent in his "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom" campaign in the 1950s. Mao later changed his mind and jailed a number of those who took him at his word and expressed dissent.

"Think outside the box....It's not in the manual, so it can't be done."

Classic.

#1.1 Gringo on 2010-06-18 23:58 (Reply)

Vogons. Just plain Vogons.

#2 lenf on 2010-06-18 21:34 (Reply)

Carly Fiorino has a solution, but it will need to be given an election cycle or two to work its free market magic:

Every spending authority has to 'show the work' on the internet.

Brilliant, i think --and probably the sort of thinking that got the hidebounds against her at HP.

#3 buddy larsen on 2010-06-19 14:50 (Reply)

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