Government Can Benefit By Learning From Losers
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Best practices are all well and good. We make a case for a center to study the worst.
With a bow to Jonathan Swift, we offer A Modest Proposal of our own: A university, government group or foundation should establish The Center for Worst Practices. There are a ton of organizations promulgating best practices, and that's a worthwhile enterprise. But as far as we can see, states, counties and cities have at least as much to learn from the efforts that fail, flop or fizzle.
By KATHERINE BARRETT & RICHARD GREENE
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