Business leaders can make a difference without jump to public ector

From car sharing to clean energy and from accountable care to affordable housing, there are clear signs of possibility. What is lacking too often is true collaboration to set a national agenda and deliver results. We know from working with business leaders that there is a hunger to be of use while delivering shareholder value. The time for a new partnership is here, and visionary leaders in both government and business should keep their day jobs.

Andrew Tarsy
Executive director
Progressive Business Leaders Network
Boston

Industry executives, bureaucrats make dangerous bedfellows

JOHN SUNUNU (“A glut of bureaucrats’’) laments that Obama administration bureaucrats are severely lacking in the experience of actually running a business, and seems to feel that the public good would be better served if they had that reservoir of experience to tap into in making policy decisions.

I wonder whether the public good was better served when Bush administration puppet master Dick Cheney colluded with oil industry executives and effectively outsourced regulatory policy to the industry being regulated.

Perhaps Sununu’s preferred model of a bureaucrat hunts with Supreme Court justices and gives CEOs a voice in controlling regulation.

There is a greater threat to the public good when you need a crowbar to pry industry executives and bureaucrats apart.

Jim Cain
North Andover