Monday, October 15, 2012

McKinsey Anthology: Government Designed for New Times


To explore the approaches that governments around the world are taking to common problems, this anthology convenes political leaders and civil servants, economists and policy experts, generalists and specialists.

McKinsey Anthology, 2012
               
Contents
        Transforming government
·       Tony Blair—Leading transformation in the 21st century
·       François-Daniel Migeon—Interview: Transforming government in France
·       Frank-Jürgen Weise—Behind the German jobs miracle
·       Tim Brown—Quick take: Designing a tech-enabled government
·       Michael Fullan—Transforming schools an entire system at a time
·       Todd Park—Interview: Unleashing government's 'innovation mojo'
·       Diana Farrell—Government designed for new times
        Innovating government services

·       James Fishkin—What the people think when they're really thinking
·       Nandan Nilekani—Interview: For every citizen, an identity
·       Matthew Taylor—Citizens: The untapped resource
·       Susan Zielinski—The new mobility
·       Peter Shergold—A social contract for government
·       Wim Elfrink—The smart-city solution
·       Karan Bhatia—Quick take: Building the world's infrastructure
·       Salman Khan—Teaching for the new millennium
·       Xie Chengxiang—Interview: Home for the urban poor
·       Elena Berkowitz and Blaise Warren—Quick take: How Estonia became E-stonia    

        Building new competencies
·       Douglas Holtz-Eakin—Fiscal management fix: Simple math—and a very big stick
·       Coen Teulings—Why politicans prefer austerity to long-term fiscal reform
·       Lu Mai—The urbanization solution
·       Göran Persson—How to tame a budget crisis
·       Peter Ho—Coping with complexity
·       Mohamed Ibrahim—Better data, better policy making    
        Understanding government in new times

·       Daron Acemoglu—The servant state
·       Parag Khanna—The rise of hybrid governance
·       Neil deGrasse Tyson—Why exploration matters—and why the government should pay  
        for it
·       Ray O. Johnson—Quick take: The research imperative
·       Hernando de Soto—Interview: Building a nation of owners
·       Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels—A middle way for governance