CHAPTER 6
The Complacency Trap
Changing Times
Idea → Design → Stargate → Implementation → Results
(←—————Reevaluation—————→)
CHAPTER GUIDE
- Mickey Landry Returns to New Orleans
- The Complacency Trap
- Sloughing Off Yesterday
- Pruitt-Igoe and Dynamiting Obsolete Structures
- Sunset in the Lone Star State
- Fixing the White House
- Herbert Hoover’s Comeback
- Schwarzenegger’s Reforms Get Terminated
- NASA’s Twin Tragedies
- The Risk of Complacency
You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
—ROBERT F. KENNEDY, PARAPHRASING GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IN BACK TO METHUSELAH
“FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, I can tell you that the public school system in New Orleans has been troubled for decades,” says Mickey Landry. In ...
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