Yes, but under the Neoliberal Dispensation everything is best run as a business with the best way to judge the worth of everything is via a spreadsheet.
The main point is a great one. I can't speak for the US but in Africa they recently (2 months ago) launched a local municipality academy that is totally free and online and has already 20 municipalities using it as a tool to upskill all govt employees based on peer-to-peer learning, trying to share the knowledge that experienced people have accumulated (see https://www.einpresswire.com/article/899232791/mec-ivan-meyer-on-launch-of-provincial-led-academy-and-first-municipal-chapter-in-swartland) but the trick at the end of the day is not to let go of those who really know what they are doing and those who bring an open minded attitude to local government
I think you are caricaturing 'technocrats', same way many pundits dismiss CFOs as bean counters. Good managers use spreadsheets to model the world, without mistaking the model for reality. They do walk the factory floor, they do sit with support staff and listen to customer calls, they do man the front line. These things inform their decisions and their models.
If your response to an accusation of "misplaced doomerism" is to shout, "it's not misplaced!" it's pretty easy to disregard the rest of the article.
Gen Z does seem uniquely sad about the status quo, the internet does an extraordinary job of making the saddest voices the loudest. But probably more importantly, if you agree that doomerism is correct, are you really the person to put an optimistic spin on how to find or train leaders of the future? After all, what's the point?
Later, you make the point about working with the "activist machines" as if certain places like San Francisco have never thought about that before. It's hardly a recipe for good governance, it's institutional paralysis through being pulled in dozens of different directions.
Great article. I miss Train Daddy
I am not here to argue. I am here to condense.
A CITY IS A SERVICE NOT A BUSINESS.
You DO NOT run them the same way successfully.
In systems theory, we call it "category error.'
Yes, but under the Neoliberal Dispensation everything is best run as a business with the best way to judge the worth of everything is via a spreadsheet.
Neo Liberal? I believe you mean Blue MAGA.
Its real you know. Just like the Deep State.
In other words; sinecures, red tape, and basic order.
The main point is a great one. I can't speak for the US but in Africa they recently (2 months ago) launched a local municipality academy that is totally free and online and has already 20 municipalities using it as a tool to upskill all govt employees based on peer-to-peer learning, trying to share the knowledge that experienced people have accumulated (see https://www.einpresswire.com/article/899232791/mec-ivan-meyer-on-launch-of-provincial-led-academy-and-first-municipal-chapter-in-swartland) but the trick at the end of the day is not to let go of those who really know what they are doing and those who bring an open minded attitude to local government
I think you are caricaturing 'technocrats', same way many pundits dismiss CFOs as bean counters. Good managers use spreadsheets to model the world, without mistaking the model for reality. They do walk the factory floor, they do sit with support staff and listen to customer calls, they do man the front line. These things inform their decisions and their models.
If your response to an accusation of "misplaced doomerism" is to shout, "it's not misplaced!" it's pretty easy to disregard the rest of the article.
Gen Z does seem uniquely sad about the status quo, the internet does an extraordinary job of making the saddest voices the loudest. But probably more importantly, if you agree that doomerism is correct, are you really the person to put an optimistic spin on how to find or train leaders of the future? After all, what's the point?
Later, you make the point about working with the "activist machines" as if certain places like San Francisco have never thought about that before. It's hardly a recipe for good governance, it's institutional paralysis through being pulled in dozens of different directions.