This posting looks at the culture of public bureaucracies as one of the barriers to innovation and reform identified by Roberts Gates in his book, Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service (1). Anyone who has worked in a government agency knows that […]
Barriers to Reform
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In my last posting, I presented three barriers identified by Roberts Gates about why public institutions are failing (1). This posting looks at a fourth, and as with the first three, I relate it to my experience working in governmental public health. _________________________________________________________________________________________ My initial reaction to news about legislators […]
In his new book, A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, Roberts Gates has written the most candid and accurate summary I’ve seen yet of why public institutions are failing the American people (1). And Dr. Gates has the practical experience to back […]