Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector

Janet A. Weiss, David Osborne, Ted Gaebler, National Performance Review

Academy of Management Review · 1995 · 4.6K citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Catalytic government - steering rather than rowing community-owned government - empowering rather than serving competitive government - injecting competition into service delivery mission-driven government - transforming rule-driven organizations results-orinted government - funding outcomes, not inputs customer-driven government - meeting the needs of the customer, not the bureaucracy enterpirsing government - earning rather than spending anticipatory government - prevention rather than cure decentralized government - from hierarchy to participation and teamwork market-orinted government - leveraging change through the market putting it all together.