Entrepreneurial Spirit in Government

At the same time, their book should be read with a highly critical eye, particularly with regard to the simplistic nature of their analysis of the world, their overly optimistic conclusions, and their failure to adequately address the profound problems of the most disadvantaged who will be left out in the cold in the new world of the future as they always have been in the old world.

Although the authors claim to have drawn together the best ideas and practices of governments with entrepreneurial spirits operating in the world today, in the final analysis their "new" world is still based on the same abiding faith in the capitalist system that has greatly benefitted the few rich and generally ignored the most disadvantaged and needy. Although they do superficially address the problems of the poorest and most socioeconomically abandoned, they show an inclination to see easy solutions when it is all too clear that their reinvented government will fail miser

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stablished new ways of doing public business effectively. They have brought these scattered examples together, and have tried to create an entirely new way of thinking about public systems: To shape our future, we need a new vision of government. Our purpose . . . [is] to offer . . . such a vision. . . . Reinvention is the only option left. But the lack of a vision---a new paradigm---holds us back. We hope the vision we have laid out will unlock the remaining gates---unleashing a paradigm shift throughout American government, from the smallest hamlet to the largest federal bureaucracy (331). Their aim is high and honorable---improving government and the society it shapes on every level. It may well be that the world and all its societies and nations and governments are simply doomed no matter what we do, so treacherous has the human race been in its mistreatment of itself and the planet. It mat be too late. Even so, the authors must be commended for trying something new---if it is what they say it is and if it will work as grandly as they promise. If it is not, then their effort to mislead the reader and/or themselves should be exposed as a false hope. The best way to read this book is to accept certain facts spelled out by t
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