Mintzberg on why the US can鈥檛 be run like a business
In a recent piece for the Harvard Business Review, Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg takes aim at US President Trump鈥檚 attempts to run the United States like a business, then demolishes them. Professor Mintzberg questions the wisdom of trying to marry such disparate systems 鈥� after all, business has a very simple, measureable yardstick in the form of profit, which makes it a poor model for governing. 鈥淲hat is the bottom line for terrorism,鈥� Professor Mintzberg asks, before countering that 鈥渕any activities are in the public sector precisely because their intricate results are difficult to measure.鈥� The US has tried this before, and it has always failed.
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