Showing posts with label management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label management. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2020

Notes from the commentariat continued

Eli Valley's Passover cartoon (Gut yom tov!) featuring Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss.


Then there was Mr. Bret Stephens, complaining about how Big Government is stopping folks from feeding children ("Covid-19 and the Big Government Problem"):
Katie Wilson, a deputy under secretary at the Department of Agriculture in the Obama administration, is the executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance, a nonprofit that works with the country’s largest school districts to improve the quality of student nutrition. Her topmost concern is with the millions of poorer children and their families for whom school meals are essential to diets and budgets alike.
In this pandemic, she has a message for government bureaucrats in Washington and every state capital: Stop getting in the way.
Note how he makes the Urban School Food Alliance sound like some nice little private thing, "a nonprofit", as opposed to a nonprofit institution that is a pretty big slice of government in its own right, a confederation of (not "with") the nation's 12 largest school districts with an almost billion-dollar budget used to "leverage our purchasing power to continue to drive food quality up and costs down while incorporating sound environmental practices."

Thursday, February 2, 2017

You may have some fundamental management issues

Image via Dennis Rutzou Public Relations, Australia.


Putting it in ALL CAPS is pretty dramatic, but it doesn't make it any more meaningful. Notice of what? Are you going to turn off their gas? Are you threatening to issue a reprimand?

Via English Language & Usage Stack Exchange.

Do you have a system of goal setting and evaluation with Iran? Can you specify to Iran what goal it is in danger of not meeting? Does your HR department back the process of setting policy by Twitter at 6:30 in the morning while you're watching Morning Joe? Do you have a process? Do you have a state department or national security council that can assist you?