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100	1		_aWeiss, Mitchell
245	1	0	_aWe the possibility : _bharnessing public entrepreneurship to solve our most urgent problems _cby Mitchell Weiss.
260			_aBoston : _bHarvard Business Review Press, _c©2021
300			_aviii, 267 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Can we solve public problems anymore? -- Part I. Government that can imagine: Problems as opportunities -- Reach up to reach out -- Part II. Government that can try new things: Experimenting in public -- Regulating the future -- Part III. Government that can scale: Government as a platform -- Tri-sector entrepreneurs -- Inventing democracy -- Concluding: Possibility or delusion -- We get the government we invent.
520			_a"Public entrepreneurship is not an oxymoron. During his years as a public official, Mitchell Weiss was told that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges--it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Sadly, this is what so many of us have come to believe. But in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, he and his city hall colleagues raced to support survivors in new, innovative ways. This kind of entrepreneurial spirit and savvy in government is growing, transforming the public sector's response to big problems at all levels. In this inspiring and instructive book, Weiss, now a professor at Harvard Business School, argues that we must shift from a mindset of "Probability Government"--overly focused on performance management and on mimicking "best" practices--to "Possibility Government." This means a leap to public leadership and management that embraces more imagination and riskier projects. Weiss shares the basic tenets of this new way of governing in the book's three sections: Government that can imagine. Seeing problems as opportunities, and designing solutions with citizens. Government that can try new things. Testing and experimentation as a regular part of solving public problems. Government that can scale. Harnessing platform techniques for innovation and growth; and how public entrepreneurship can reinvigorate democracy. The lessons unfold in the timely episodes Weiss has seen and studied: a heroin hackathon in opioid-ravaged Cincinnati; a series of blockchain experiments in Tbilisi to protect Georgian property from the Russians; the U.S. Special Operations Command prototyping of a hoverboard for chasing pirates, among many others. At a crucial moment in the evolution of government's role in our society, We the Possibility provides both inspiration and a positive model to help shape progress for generations to come"--
650			_aPolitical entrepreneurship.
650			_aPublic administration _xDecision making.
650			_aCrisis management in government.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aWeiss, Mitchell, _tWe the possibility _dBoston, MA : Harvard Business Review Press, [2020] _z9781633699205 _w(DLC) 2020036287
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