"In the private business mentality, you move forward the minute you make a decision.
"The traditional private equity mentality is 'This is our chance to really grill them,'" says Kelley.
Get out of the private car mentality.
A mayor with a definitively private sector mentality, Levine sees Miami Beach residents as "customers --and, he expecustomers --andees to view them the same way.
And so on, and so the last Labour government rolled out programs to fast-track ex-City workers into teaching another stab at bringing the private sector mentality to schooling and the current coalition government has sought to fast-track ex-soldiers.
There seems to be a bit more of a private-sector mentality in this administration, where business sometimes gets done without checks and balances.
As a former Stuyvesant High School parent, I had always wondered whether the school management, with its elitist, private-school mentality and largely privileged parent body, ever really wanted to open up to black or Hispanic students or other nontraditional immigrant communities of color.
"For a long time, there was a community that wanted to make Pennington Grimes treated like a private school -- a mentality of making one school based on racial demographics a great school and ignoring the rest of the district," said the Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson of Grace Baptist Church, a longtime activist on school issues.
Also like Bloomberg, Levine has a distinctly private sector, pro-business mentality.
A collaborative health care mentality: The private sector doctors were not at all interested in involving me in Mike's care.
But in a clear example of the private-good, public-bad mentality that has blinded all governments in recent decades, this was the third time in a just over a decade that the government called in the East Coast franchise.
