Donald F. Kettl
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“If we created a climate that punishes risk-taking, we are likely to get too-safe decisions that interfere with government's job done.”
― The Politics of the Administrative Process
― The Politics of the Administrative Process
“In his original draft, Jefferson indicted George III for his complicity in the slave trade: [H]e has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.… [D]etermined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.9 Of course, there was profound irony in the harsh denunciation of a king who had not personally bought or sold slaves on the North American continent, in a document whose author had.”
― The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn't Work
― The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn't Work
“government needs more flexibility to identify talent and recruit effectively for the workers with the skills it needs; it needs a pay and benefits system that is competitive with private markets; it needs a talent management system that rewards top performers and deals with poor performers, including increasing flexibility in firing those whose work is substandard. And”
― Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America?s Lost Commitment to Competence
― Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America?s Lost Commitment to Competence
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