Refreshing
October 28th, 2005 by BWV
Thanks to Chairman Maoxian — an American living in China whose blog I frequent — for highlighting this article from the New York Times regarding Bloomberg’s management of that city:
“[Bloomberg] reshaped the way the mayor’s office runs New York, applying a results-based approach to almost every area of city government, and largely appointing his commissioners based on expertise and giving them nearly free rein to determine policy regardless of political consequences.”
- “… by paying for campaigns with his own money, he can operate without the usual pressures that afflict politicians….”
- “The mayor-elect said he would create a huge workspace that would be just like the open-air trading room in which he worked at Salomon Brothers and later recreated at his private company, Bloomberg L.P. He would put his desk in the middle of the room and seat his top deputies and staff members around him, he said. Dozens of other aides would sit at cubicles placed side by side, ensuring the access of lower-ranking managers to the mayor’s inner circle and bringing with it more accountability.”
- “Mr. Bloomberg exercises control over the city much like Mel Karmazin, the former Viacom chief, famously did at his company: by closely monitoring the numbers produced by a team of star department heads who are free to run their agencies as they see fit so long as they meet strict production targets. It is a strategy grounded in his experience in the business world.”
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