Reinventing Government: What A Difference A Strategy Makes

By David Osborn

Reinventing public institutions is Herculean work. To succeed, you must find strategies that set off chain reactions in your organization or system, dominoes that will set all others falling. In a phrase, you must be strategic.

By strategy, I do not mean detailed plans. There is no recipe you can follow to reinvent government, no step-by-step progression to which you must slavishly adhere. The process is not linear, and it is certainly not orderly. Things rarely go as planned; reinventors must constantly adjust their approaches in response to the resistance and opportunities they encounter.  

Rather, by strategy, I mean the use of key leverage points to make fundamental changes that ripple throughout the bureaucracy, changing everything else. Reinvention is large-scale combat. It requires intense, prolonged struggle in the political arena, in the institutions of government, and in the community and society. Given the enormity of the task and the resistance that must be overcome, the reinventor’s challenge is to leverage small resources into big changes.

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Being strategic means using the levers available to you to change the underlying dynamics in a system, in a way that changes everyone’s behavior.

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6 thoughts on “Reinventing Government: What A Difference A Strategy Makes

  1. And this is exactly what is wrong with most people who think that they want to overthrow our current government. They simply want to change the guard. I prefer to publicly eviscerate the guards and dare anyone to pickup the pike. We do not need government. Government is the root of all problems with a state. If you have no government, you have no state. If you have no state then men become more responsible and civil or they are exterminated. This sets in motion a moral,natural law that men , who wish to draw their next breath will abide by. This is also known as liberty. Those that advocate for any government are simply looking to control other men and are just jealous of the current slave masters.

  2. This author with the Jewish name proposes a strategy that can only lead to more chaos.

    We don’t need to “reinvent government”. We need to reinstate the Bill of Rights by arresting the criminals, and trying them in common law courts. Then we need to elect new representatives, and proceed in accordance with the constitution, for now. (changes after the dust settles)

    It’s a PERFECT government if we just stick to the rules, and hold those in power accountable. The Bill of Rights is flawless. The problems we have stem from the American people forgetting their responsibility to be “eternally vigilant”.

    1. I see only 1 problem here

      “Common Courts of Law”.. whos laws? theirs?.. no thanks

      and all those “Common Courts” are just as corrupt as the Enemy Force In Occupation that some are calling our “Government”

      maybe as a US National we should hold our own Court as (all of us should) and start from the ground up eliminating our corrupt courts first .. than head into DC and give them a who’s yer daddy

  3. “Reinvention is large-scale combat.”

    Unchallenged.

    “It requires intense, prolonged struggle in the political arena, in the institutions of government, and in the community and society.”

    Oh… you’re not talking about REAL combat, you’re talking about the PAPER kind that only gets people murdered by the so-called ‘government’.

    Bite me, commie jewb#tch!

  4. HEY!!! ITS SUNDAY GUYS!!!!
    HEAVENLY FATHER, THANK YOU FOR BLESSING THE BILL OF RIGHTS MOVEMENT WITH PEOPLE OF EXTRAODINARY INTELLIGENCE . COMPASSION AND BRAVERY.MOST OF OUR PEOPLE KNOW A LIE WHEN THEY HEAR ONE. I ATTRIBUTE THIS TO DIVINE INTERVENTION, SINCE THE WHOLE WORLD IS FILTHY WITH LIES AND DECEPTIONS. MOST CHRISTIANS KNOW BY NOW THAT THE OTHER EDGE OF THE TWO EDGED SWORD OF SALVATION IS JUDGEMENT, AND THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT WITHOUT LAWFUL JUSTICE. THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS A PERFECT EXTENSION OF THAT JUST LAW THAT WE THANK YOU FOR.COME TO OUR AID LORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. RETURN ON WINGS OF VENGEANCE TO DESTROY THEM THAT DESTROY THE EARTH AND THAT KILL AND IMPRISON OUR PEOPLE WITHOUT JUST CAUSE. IN JESUS’ NAME , AMEN

  5. If pen, paper and diplomacy worked, would the War of Northern Agression occurred?

    All they wanted was to secede.

    Reasoning with power mad psychopaths that want what they want is futile.

    Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can be done until the existing occupying regime is deposed and burned.

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