Businesses do not like to take on other sectors of business or changes that present an existential peril to the latter.
But that's not necessarily true about private-company executives, so there's a bit of sticker shock among those members of Colorado's privileged class when they take on public-sector jobs.
Looking for love, he went on to explain, is what led politicians to spend too much money on social programs; love-seeking New Jersey politicians before him had been unwilling to "take on the public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health-benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy" — as if unions were as popular as puppies, and not a regular target of attack.
"The idea is to help the sector take on a stronger leadership role itself – identifying good practice and what works, sharing resources, and identifying barriers and solutions," she explains.
Manufacturers enjoyed a jump in demand that pushed growth to its fastest rate for more than two years and saw the sector take on thousands of new staff last month.
When the authority awarded BAA the contract at Newark in 1998, officials said the agency was "tapping one of the best firms in the private sector" to take on the $10 million project.
"Will the private sector operation take on the same sort of risks that the RAF, the Royal Navy and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency do, on the same scale?
But it says there is an urgent need to identify where all the dangerous rocks are, and the time has now come for the private, philanthropic sector to take on the task.
A tourism boom is helping as retailers and hotels take on seasonal staff, and some industrial sectors, including car manufacturing, are on the up.
Specific words and terminology take on a different meaning in different sectors, contexts, and even countries.
