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Haena Kim haenakim — Blogged: Give a Hoot, Read a Book!

Fmd2two Fmd2two _2_ — Why do governments fail to deliver on promises of change? Not because of inadequate funding, as most civil servants will whine, but rather because of failures of organization. So says Sir Michael, who has written an overly long but nevertheless charming (truly) account of his tenure as Blair's point person on change. Would that Sir Micheal could serve our new prez, who seems destined to fail on his domestic agenda for exactly the reasons laid out in this book: institutional inertia; cynicism; fear of change that leads to watered-down applications; to say nothing of bad ideas and ineptitude. My personal favorite barrier to change is the annoying need for consensus building--which simply takes too much time (years, in most cases)--rather than professionals simply accepting imposed ideas "no matter how good" (p. 166). Barber refers to this tendency as "assisted wheel reinvention," when professionals insist on discovering new practices for themselves rather than accepting best practices that have been identified and handed down. (I am surprised to learn this is a problem in the UK; I assumed anti-authorianism a distinctly American trait. Clearly, consumer culture has done its work....) In the District of Columbia, we are living with the consequences of a culture of consensus run amuck as the teachers' union--in the city with the worst school scores in the nation--refuses to accept very good new ideas simply because they were not "consulted". Sir Michael is dead-right about nearly every problem he describes in this book and has marvelously sensible ideas about organizational culture. But would that the book were half as long...at 465 pages, I can't imagine anyone will want to read it. But you should.

Matthias V _att_ancoillie — I did read this book in its German edition, which was a great translation. I just could not put the book down - the characters are as real as life itself and completely not tied to their country of origin. Highly recommended!