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Friday, November 15, 2013

For Some in Government, ‘Effective’ Is the New ‘Efficient’

Liz Farmer writes in Governing magazine:

For a generation now, the buzzword for government officials has been “efficiency”—faster and cheaper equals better. But that mindset misses the big picture, says Linda Langston, the county executive of Linn County, Iowa, and the current president of the National Association of Counties. “You can be really efficient at going 100 mph, but if it’s in the wrong direction, what good does it do?”


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