America’s Innovative Leaders – Lessons from Our Best

Each year, through the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School, we review more than a thousand federal, city and state applications demonstrating smart and innovative ways to do the public’s business better. At the heart of many of these programs, I see a strong, inventive and persistent leader discovering effective new ways to use and stretch resources. These examples, championed by dedicated public servants, should encourage citizens that government can indeed be effective and agile.

By Stephen Goldsmith

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