November 2009
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
8h 17m
English
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CHAPTER 5
The Sisyphus Trap
The Rock, the Hill, and You
Idea → Design → Stargate → Implementation → Results
(←—————Reevaluation—————→)
CHAPTER GUIDE
- Mayor Riordan Turns Around LA, and Vice Versa
- The Sisyphus Trap
- Incentives Without Carrots or Sticks
- Culture Matters
- Politics and Bureaucracy: Bridging the Divide
- James Webb and Putting a Man on the Moon
- An Ever Steeper Hill
- Pretzel Logic
- Welfare Reform 1996: Beating the Double Sisyphus Trap
- Systems, People, and Results
There’s a mood among us. People are worried. There has been talk of decline. Someone even said our workers are lazy and uninspired. And I thought: Really? You go tell Neil Armstrong standing on the moon. Tell the men and women who put him there.
—PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH, STATE ...
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