[Themaintainers] book, Maintainers reading group?

[Lee Vinsel]

Hi Angie,

I think this is a great idea, and I have always wanted to try out a virtual
seminar/reading group. Is anyone else on the list interested? If not, I'm
fine with it being just us two.

Lee

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Boyce, Angie Marlene <
aboyce at hsph.harvard.edu> wrote:

>  I just saw the announcement for a new book that looks relevant for the
> folks on this list (info below), and that got me thinking that it might be
> fun to have a Maintainers virtual summer reading group.  Is anyone else
> interested in that?  (I’m not committed to this book in particular.)
>
>
> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7705.html?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.20.2015%20(1
> )
>
>  Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the
> cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline
> passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many
> agree that the need for infrastructure change is urgent, where is the sense
> of urgency to make these changes happen?
>
> That's one of the questions Harvard Business School Professor of Business
> Administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter
> <http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6486> asks in her
> book published today, Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the
> Lead. <http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Move/>
>
> "Given so many situations and factors that should arouse enormous concern,
> why is it so hard to secure public support for long-term infrastructure
> investments and get Congress to vote for them?" Kanter writes. "I think
> it's a structural issue. Silos, narrow interests, and fragmentation mute
> outrage. Perhaps we're stuck not only with aging infrastructure but also
> with obsolete ways of talking about it."
>
>


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