“For (1), my barely-informed guess is that before the port got backed up, the rule hadn’t created any obviously significant drawbacks. Then, we did, in fact, have a failure of leadership in terms of recognizing a tractable solution to the problem.”
Is it possible that none of the politicians in authority had sufficient knowledge of Logistics or Operations Management and there was insufficient information flow happening to get that to some of the zoning board guys?
It seems to me, after reading a lot of Deming, this is the cause of a lot of problems: Lack of actual understanding of how a system actually works + Lack of information flow + Desire to impose rules and structures that do not take into account how a system (and mostly the people working in it) actually work.
Is it possible that fixing those things would positively impact a huge number of organizations in a practical way?
I hear a related complaint from people working in jobs like forestry and ranching. They complain that big-city liberals dominate legislatures and impose environmental regulations with no understanding or concern for its impact on their jobs.
If there are specific problems with those regulations, shouldn’t a legislator representing a district with a lot of forestry or ranching be able to propose a sensible solution with little opposition?
Normally, that’s why you have lobbyists. Big companies hire lobbyists to tell politicians about these things. When big companies don’t have their own lobbyists there are often industry lobby groups that are supposed to understand problems like this and then tell the politicians to get the rule changed.
It seems like the Port of Long Beach spend $280,000 on lobbying in 2020. Maybe, that’s too low and they should hire more lobbyists? Or is there some reason why this was not important enough as a policy priority for the port?
“For (1), my barely-informed guess is that before the port got backed up, the rule hadn’t created any obviously significant drawbacks. Then, we did, in fact, have a failure of leadership in terms of recognizing a tractable solution to the problem.”
Is it possible that none of the politicians in authority had sufficient knowledge of Logistics or Operations Management and there was insufficient information flow happening to get that to some of the zoning board guys?
It seems to me, after reading a lot of Deming, this is the cause of a lot of problems: Lack of actual understanding of how a system actually works + Lack of information flow + Desire to impose rules and structures that do not take into account how a system (and mostly the people working in it) actually work.
Is it possible that fixing those things would positively impact a huge number of organizations in a practical way?
I hear a related complaint from people working in jobs like forestry and ranching. They complain that big-city liberals dominate legislatures and impose environmental regulations with no understanding or concern for its impact on their jobs.
If there are specific problems with those regulations, shouldn’t a legislator representing a district with a lot of forestry or ranching be able to propose a sensible solution with little opposition?
Normally, that’s why you have lobbyists. Big companies hire lobbyists to tell politicians about these things. When big companies don’t have their own lobbyists there are often industry lobby groups that are supposed to understand problems like this and then tell the politicians to get the rule changed.
It seems like the Port of Long Beach spend $280,000 on lobbying in 2020. Maybe, that’s too low and they should hire more lobbyists? Or is there some reason why this was not important enough as a policy priority for the port?