Lina Hidalgo, eager to improve Harris County government (Houston, Dallas: universities, subdivisions)

[Mr. Krinkle]

For those who say Hidalgo is in over her head, can you provide any sources of bad decisions she has made within her first month on the job?

[bu2]

Originally Posted by ScrappyJoe

Intelligence and determination is all that is needed to be effective at these positions. And lucky for Houston, Lina has both. She's adapting quite well.

That's a recipe for disaster for anyone who does any hiring in supervisory positions.

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Originally Posted by Mr. Krinkle

For those who say Hidalgo is in over her head, can you provide any sources of bad decisions she has made within her first month on the job?

You mean beside spending tons of cash to hire NY consultants to do the hiring and work that she was elected to do?

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by Dopo

People that say the Astrodome should be preserved, need to understand that preserving a historic site has a cost.
I bet anything you want that preserving the Astrodome would cost 10 times what it cost to preserve the Alamo,
Minus the tourist money the Alamo generates for San Antonio.

It’s ridiculous to want to preserve something so big that doesn’t generate any money.

So we should only preserve small buildings ? Dopo are you the President of "The Preserve Only Tiny Buildings Society" ? TPOTS

Exactly where is the line between a building small enough to preserve, and one that's to BIG to preserve?
You know if Santa Anna hadn't destroyed so much of the Alamo complex maybe it would be too big for you to support it's preservation as well....

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by TheMoreYouKnow

You mean beside spending tons of cash to hire NY consultants to do the hiring and work that she was elected to do?

Do you have proof of that claim?

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Do you have proof of that claim?

It's not a claim, it's the topic of this thread. Did you even read post #1?

[GreenBouy]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Do you have proof of that claim?

The cost is really irrelevant, it’s only 115k, for now.

This is the quote which is disturbing to me as a Harris County resident ““I’m not going to sit here and come up with the best ideas by myself,” Hidalgo said. “And the folks that have been here 10, 20, 30 years aren’t going to either.”

She will learn the hard way that experience counts and his her best ally, having people on your side who know people for 10, 20, or 30 years is more valuable than some over priced consultants.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by GreenBouy

The cost is really irrelevant, it’s only 115k, for now.

This is the quote which is disturbing to me as a Harris County resident ““I’m not going to sit here and come up with the best ideas by myself,” Hidalgo said. “And the folks that have been here 10, 20, 30 years aren’t going to either.”

She will learn the hard way that experience counts and his her best ally, having people on your side who know people for 10, 20, or 30 years is more valuable than some over priced consultants.

And most of the work done by these consultants is done by Stanford or Harvard MBAs with a couple of years of low level employment and less than 2 years of work at these consulting firms.

Its always amusing seeing the nonsense the McKinsey and other Management Consultants come up with. Not that everything they do is worthless, but if you've got a good firm with qualified people, they have limited value other than to demonstrate how little the top management understands about the details of running the business.

[kemahkami]

Originally Posted by bu2

That's a recipe for disaster for anyone who does any hiring in supervisory positions.

What is? The intelligence or the adaptability?

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by TheMoreYouKnow

You mean beside spending tons of cash to hire NY consultants to do the hiring and work that she was elected to do?

Which sources detail the spending? how does it compare with other county judges?