At any other time, such a timescale might be seen as unsound decision-making that has not taken into account legal, financial and risk considerations.
The adversarial process encourages the parties to discredit each other's scientific or technical evidence, which can lead to politically expedient but technically or economically unsound decisions.
But with top management pushing hard for identifiable productivity increases, there is a real risk that defining productivity too narrowly will lead to unsound decisions by subordinates.
Eventually this economically depressed, largely minority community was taken over by the state, which then proceeded to make a series of unsound decisions that no one in the many overlapping governmental agencies responsible for water quality managed to notice.
"At the high end, you could reach a point where the Goldman Sachs employee says, 'I'm going to Hoboken.' And at the lower end, you force people to make unsound decisions".
Many of the report's criticisms centered on financially unsound decisions made by the president at the time, John J. Signorelli, who resigned in late April after being fined $2,500 by the state board for failing to follow certain rules.
Otherwise intelligent, well-mannered managers do all kinds of things they'd never do if they were rested they may get angry at employees, make unsound decisions that affect the future of their companies, and give muddled presentations before their colleagues, customers, the press, or shareholders.
"At the high end, you could reach a point where the Goldman Sachs employee says, 'I'm going to Hoboken.' And at the lower end, you force people to make unsound decisions". But some economists say high housing costs go hand in hand with economic growth, not stagnation.
Arijit Sengupta, founder of BeyondCore, build this platform not only to surface all kinds of correlations, but also to warn the business user about potential hidden factors, in an effort to protect the user from statistically unsound decisions.
