“Every system is perfectly designed to achieve exactly the results it achieves.”
Dr. Don Berwick may have been talking about the health care system, but he could have just as easily been talking about economic development in Memphis. Repeatedly, we act as if our economic challenges just happened or were driven by forces beyond our control. And yet, our economic development strategies are perfectly designed to achieve exactly the results they achieve. Unfortunately.
As if often the case, the people who should be sending up warning flares are too invested in the current system to be objective or honest. Maybe it’s our own fault. We seem unprepared to tackle the really tough problems before us, so we pay people a lot of money to lie to us about the state of things.
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