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...news of the hiring halt. But some are unconvinced that the freeze was the best solution. Holt said the “knee-jerk” response of the hiring freeze could have been avoided—or at least postponed—until departments had conducted a rational, top-down evaluation of their respective programs based upon the teaching and research goals of the University. “The good manager looks at sweeping all the pennies, dimes, and nickels off the floor. He looks in the cracks, he does the hard work of analyzing his organization...
...policymakers are TFA alums. The scope of TFA must not be exaggerated, of course. While it does put over 3,000 people in schools across the country there are still many other routes to effecting change in public education. More still needs to be done in promoting top-down education change in this country, and the onus first falls on President-elect Obama. In the early moments of his administration, it will be pivotal for him to appoint leaders, especially a secretary of education, who will further facilitate the trend toward public sector work and service by the nation?...
...from the shop floor so that everyone was dedicated to improvement. The Toyota system, says MacDuffie, "relies on contributions from employees. It feels vulnerable, but your willingness to be open to that vulnerability is what helps you make it work." In the 1980s and part of the '90s, the top-down culture of the Big Three could not absorb that kind of deep trust...
...union that has become unusually involved in local matters in Washington. "I am not saying that D.C.'s school system doesn't need a lot of help. But I have been part of a lot of reforms, and the one thing I have never seen work is a hierarchical, top-down model...
...Napolitano's other obvious distinction is that, as a governor, she can be expected to have much more sympathy for states, which have felt disrespected and excluded under a top-down approach to homeland-security issues since 9/11. "The trust between federal, state and locals is just not there," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association. Governors, including Napolitano, have protested the costs of REAL ID, a 2005 law passed by Congress to upgrade the security of drivers' licenses, as well as the failure of the Federal Government to take a lead in repairing the country...