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April 17, 2006
A competitiveness week
According to published reports of his schedule, President Bush seems to be turning this week into a push for his competitiveness agenda. He is scheduled to participate in a forum in Sterling, Virginia on Monday, to speak at a middle school in Rockville on Tuesday and to speak on competitiveness at Tuskegee University on Wednesday.
On Thursday, he is meeting with President Hu Jintao of China. The White House meeting is sure to touch on matters of economic competitiveness.
Then the President flies out to California to participate in a competitiveness forum at Cisco Systems on Friday.
Also of interest is that on Wednesday, while the President is out of town, Vice President Cheney will be presenting Malcolm Baldrige National Quality awards for 2005.
Quite a line up of competitiveness events.
I have only one concern. Why isn't the President handing out the Baldride Awards? The Baldrige award is the closest thing the US has to an economic competitiveness award.
I see no reason why the President shouldn't be doing both of the Tuskegee event and the Baldrige awards. Both are important if the White House wants to highlight economic competitiveness. And, with all due respect to the Vice President, handing the Baldrige Awards off to someone else is not the way to draw attention to companies and organizations that are on the front line of the battle for "performance excellence."
Posted by Ken Jarboe at April 17, 2006 8:21 AM
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