By adamg on Wed., 8/16/2017 - 9:21 am
But that's OK, because state officials weren't looking for anybody like that - they wanted somebody with "turnaround" experience - the Herald reports.
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I know nothing about the guy,
By DPM
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 12:15pm
I know nothing about the guy, just pointing out that widgets are widgets.
It's not the lack of public transit experience that worries me
By issacg
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 12:39pm
its the lack of public sector experience. Running an operation in the public sector is, I believe, considerably more difficult that many private operations. You cannot just walk in and rule by fiat the way you can in many private operations. There are all kinds of exogenous factors beyond your control, and dealing with arguably the biggest ones (labor and politicians and their constant interference) require, for lack of a better term, "street cred" with those groups. (I realize you can analogize to union labor in the private sector and to shareholders, but from my view, having worked in both the public and private sectors, it's not the same).
I am not sure this fellow has any street cred, but I hope to hell he can get some and fast. This thing (the MBTA) is strangling the goose (metro Boston) that is laying the golden egg for the whole Commonwealth.
Running a quasi-public entity isn't "c-suite"
By Kaz
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 3:31pm
Managing a public works and managing a company are not interchangeable prima facie. He may make the transition just fine. He may not.
He bears an uncanny
By whyaduck
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 10:27am
resemblance to Chris Christie, no?
Glad we're all on the same
By Steve Brady
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 10:29am
Glad we're all on the same page:
"World Class" — A Meaningless Term Used When People Are Cluele
By Elmer
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 11:02am
The perfect candidate for
By anon
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 10:30am
The perfect candidate for leading the MBTA doesn't need transit experience. The candidate needs union wrangling experience.
Yeah!!!1! The guy who doesn't
By Kinopio
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 12:06pm
Yeah!!!1! The guy who doesn't know the first thing about making trains run on time should boss around and lower pay of the people who actually know about public transit! Makes total sense.
This reminds me of what happened with the demise of Polaroid
By Neal
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 11:08am
They installed as CEO a person with no imaging experience and no practical knowledge of its products (a former CEO of Black & Decker). My father, a Polaroid employee from the mid Sixties until its demise (and then on to a successor company with the same name, until that too folded) always said about him "he knows how to sell power tools, but knows nothing about imaging or photography". Several innovative products that were ahead of the digital photography curve that my father (a long time product line manager who started as a staff photographer directly under Dr. Land) thought would have saved the company were rejected in favor of branding non-Polaroid products with its logo and name. Needless to say, the company ceased to exist after not too long. Sometimes a widget is not a widget.
Same story with Eastman Kodak
By anon
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 12:42pm
Same story with Eastman Kodak, but they blew it with their eyes wide open.
Kodak had a choice in the 1970's to spend a billion dollar on either a) digital imaging, like their new camcorder or b) instant photography. They chose instant photography. Their reasoning was that most of the company's revenue came from film. Instant photography consumed film, so there'd be more money in it.
Kodak soon ended up in a lengthy lawsuit with Polaroid over instant photography patents, where just the two companies spent a billion dollars just on lawyers. The rest is history.
Nobody's perfect.
By anon
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 11:08am
Nobody's perfect.
Bios of various transit agency leaders
By Ari O
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 11:58am
NYC MTA: Veronique Hakim
Director of New Jersey Transit
Special Council at MTA
Head of NJ Turnpike
27 years public sector experience
Chicago CTA: Dorval Carter
Chief Counsel, Deputy Admin, Chief of Staff, Federal Transit Authority
General Attorney, CTA
31 years public sector experience
Los Angeles MTA: Phil Washington
CEO, RTD, Denver
24 years in US Army, Command Sergeant Major
16 years public sector experience
DC WMATA: Paul Wiedefield
CEO Maryland Aviation Admin
Admin Maryland Transportation Authority
13 years public sector experience
Philly SEPTA: Jeff Knueppel
Deputy GM of Operations and Engineering, SEPTA
Chief Engineer, SEPTA
27 years public sector experience
Yet here in MA:
By Kinopio
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 12:10pm
Yet here in MA:
Charlie Baker: Despises the MBTA and public transit in general. Saddled the MBTA with a huge chunk of debt that had nothing to do with public transit. Raises prices on MBTA riders white cutting service. Never rides the MBTA.
Marty Walsh: Self identified "car guy". Doesn't ride the T. Defends drivers when they kill people in hit and runs.
The new head of the MBTA: Doesn't know the first thing about public transit.
I wonder why the MBTA isn't a world class transit service???
Industry is moving away from
By DPM
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 12:28pm
Industry is moving away from hiring insiders for the C suite, looks like these other transit agencies are sticking to hiring strategies out of the 70s.
https://hbr.org/2016/04/outsider-ceos-are-on-the-r...
Our government is too generous with some salaries.
By StillFromDorchester
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 1:40pm
That salary is obscene no matter what his qualifications are.
Nope
By John Costello
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 3:01pm
You obviously don't know what it takes to run an organization and the expected compensation, especially with upper management.
Sure, you could go low bidder, but you get what you pay for if you bottom out.
$320,000 today is not an outrageous amount of money to running an organization like this.
However, if you can think you can do it better and much cheaper, give Charlie B a call and make your case.
Right because ...
By THE_WIZ
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 4:22pm
The T is just teeming with people who get hired on their "ability."
They are all somebody's cousins, brothers, uncles, nephews...see UNION...cronyism, nepotism etc...
Most new guys are known for banging on "hundreds of doors for, Maaaahty."
1985 called
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 8:04pm
They want their "unions baaaad" meme back.
Nobody in the Leadership
By anon
Thu, 08/17/2017 - 9:17am
Nobody in the Leadership office is a union employee. Christ.
The new GM is a former GE
By anon
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 3:49pm
The new GM is a former GE exec, and yet no one has posted a contentless, snarky message about helipads yet? C'mon, people!
I know!
By cybah
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 5:29pm
We are slipping here on Uhub.
Ok.. how about..
"OK maybe GE will finally get its helipad, but it will be operated by the MBTA so it'll be taken out of service a good portion of the time for 'schedule adjustments' "
Except it'll take an extra 5
By anon
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 6:14pm
Except it'll take an extra 5 years to get built, go 3x over budget, and be scaled back to the size of a drink coaster.
How the hell...
By Kaz
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 7:11pm
How in the world does a helipad have delays due to a switching problem?
Proven skill set
By anon
Wed, 08/16/2017 - 5:52pm
Puhleeze.
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