by Raphael Bostic Orignally posted on Forbes.com 5/17/2013 @ 6:00PM At church the other morning, the pastor’s sermon was about community. She asked us to look at what kind of relationship we had with others in the community. Had we taken time to talk with others and get to know them better? Read more…
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 different potential models come to mind. One model of the playbook Read more…
by Raphael Bostic 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 to learn from observed success to distill out Read more…
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 was also a watershed for governance in California. We had our Read more…
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. Now let me be clear about one thing off the bat: Read more…
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 state of infrastructure moving forward. Why a focus on infrastructure? Infrastructure Read more…
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 being debated, the likelihood of finding common ground and success is Read more…
October 11, 2012
Bedrosian Center Director, Raphael Bostic shares another aspect of the challenges to effective governance.
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 on the international stage, among others – and yet there is Read more…