Playbooks and Silver Linings 2
by Raphael Bostic Last time, I wrote about the need for “playbooks” to help practitioners in the field advance plans and goals for development and progress. A question came back: what does a playbook look like? Thinking about this, two … Continue reading
Playbooks and Silver Linings
How is knowledge passed on from on group to another one? This is a question I continually come upon in my policy work. In nerdy terms, what we are talking about is the preconditions of success. And the strategy is … Continue reading
End of year
by Raphael Bostic As we move through the holiday season and approach the end of the semester, it is a good time to take stock of the year that has past. We have had quite an eventful 2012. The year … Continue reading
Payday loans: what gives?
by Raphael Bostic During a recent advisory board meeting for Self-Help/Center for Responsible Lending California, we had a lively discussion about where to draw the line determining what products should be allowed or disallowed. The product in question: payday loans. … Continue reading
Let’s Talk – Infrastructure Investment: Is It Still Possible?
by Raphael Bostic In the last few weeks, I have had several conversations on the issue of infrastructure. Each of these made clear the important role that governance has to play in determining the future of infrastructure investment and the … Continue reading
Politics as Personal
by Raphael Bostic For a while now, I have been reflecting on the important role that “the personal” plays in determining whether a governance arrangement is going to be effective. It is clear that, regardless of what policy topic is … Continue reading
Governance: An Essential Frontier
by Raphael Bostic Last week, we talked about wicked problems and found that part of the problem is implementation and governance. Another aspect of the governance problem is that the rules for making decisions and processes for reaching collective decisions … Continue reading
Wicked Problems
by Raphael Bostic In recent years, many have argued that government is in a state of crisis. There are big problems that are widely known – a crumbling infrastructure, flailing education system, environments in crisis, loss of our competitive edge … Continue reading