Many middle managers in the private sector only wants to keep costs down if their jobs are on the line.<p>Otherwise, they play the same games that their public sector counterparts do - spend everything they&#x27;re given, always ask for YOY growth, resist efforts to automate themselves out of a job.<p>There is no private vs public sector magic wand that somehow makes the former more efficient then the latter. If there was, IBM would be out of business.