TallIsGood
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How about a trolley? Way more capacity than busses.
LAZ won a five-year, $39 million contract with the MBTA in late 2012, according to court documents, and the payments announced Monday amount to about 14 percent of the total contract price.
"After review by third party auditors, and on mutual agreement with the MBTA, LAZ acknowledges the alleged theft by three dishonest employees at a limited number of these parking lots. Once the loss was discovered, we acted swiftly to identify and immediately terminate those allegedly responsible," LAZ President Jeffrey Karp said in a statement. "Throughout this process we have been diligent, fully engaged and cooperative with the authorities involved to identify the nature and extent of the financial loss to the MBTA."
Three employees at a limited number of lots stole 14% of the parking revenue from the whole system?
It doesn't say that at all??? It says they settled for 14% of the contract. The contract presumably is less than parking revenue, otherwise MBTA would not be making any money on their parking lots. And the settlement may be for more than what was stolen. Often, the contract will stipulate an interest rate if breached.
Boston Globe said:Ramirez is currently a consultant specializing in business turnarounds, and was previously chief executive of Global Power Equipment Group, an industrial concern in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to his profile posted on LinkedIn. Before that he worked in various GE energy divisions for 12 years.
Pollack: "Transit expert was not high on our priority list."
ELECTIONS. HAVE. CONSEQUENCES.
HOLD YOUR CANDIDATES ACCOUNTABLE.
Absolutely. This was Baker's guy. The MBA/"turn around specialist"/management consultant -type.
Data is spot on. However this guy turns out needs to be tied back to the elected officials' mentalities that resulted in his being selected.
If Pollack is OK with him and he is open to bringing in best practices from other systems, I don't see how we can be saying he is pre-judged a failure.
If Pollack is OK with him and he is open to bringing in best practices from other systems, I don't see how we can be saying he is pre-judged a failure.
How does he possibly know enough about transit systems to recognize a best practice if it hit him in the face? Total farce in my opinion.
"If you know how to design a great motorcycle engine, I can teach you all you need to know about business strategy in a few days.
If you have a PhD in business strategy, years of labor are unlikely to give you the ability to design a great motorcyle engine"
- Prof. Richard Rumelt
Anderson School of Management, UCLA
Sure, we have no choice.Let's give he guy a chance.
Alan Mulally was a Boeing exec who inoculated Ford against the Great Recession, and then turned it around. It did not take automaking domain expertise, it took stuff like finance, supply chain, labor relations, R&D, and marketing. Industrial company stuff, nothing about up through the ranks in one town, one industry, or one organization.
"An automobile has about 10,000 parts, right? An airplane has two million. And it has to stay up in the air."
- Alan Mulally
Sorry, but this example is exactly wrong. Mulally was the consummate engineering manager, and was hired specifically for his expertise managing hugely complex engineering design, development, and manufacturing programs.
The ideology that led to Mulally's hiring is 180-degrees from Baker's idea of how to run the T.