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William D. Eggers

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Exec. Director, Deloitte Center for Government Insights. Author, Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems, available now
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The Most Important Power That a Mayor Has

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By Stephen Goldsmith, William D. Eggers, Zina Hutton
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The actual authority of mayors derives from state laws and local charters. However, their ability to accomplish broad goals or take on complex or “wicked” problems depends in large part on their apparent authority, which derives from democracy itself. The public recognizes the mayor (or in some cases the elected county executive) as the person elected to lead them across many domains.
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How Nashville Learned to Share Data Across Agencies

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By Stephen Goldsmith, Betsy Gardner, William D. Eggers, Jared Brey Verified
| GOVERNING Verified
For a city government to furnish high-quality service, engage well with its communities and solve challenging issues, it must operate as an enterprise, not as a collection of discrete agencies. And that approach requires not just application programming interfaces and point solutions but an enterprise system — a technology platform and data-sharing policies that further citywide solutions and enterprisewide data literacy.
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How a Dedicated Innovation Team Can Tackle ‘Good Problems’

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By Stephen Goldsmith, William D. Eggers, Jared Brey Verified, Zina Hutton
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Leaders of government at all levels who aspire to create innovative organizations always need help. That help might come from borrowing and adapting the ideas of another jurisdiction. At Harvard, we ran an Innovations in American Government program for many years that collected thousands of ideas for that purpose. Support for innovation can also come from outside of government, such as the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ important funding of the first government innovation delivery teams in 2011.
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