From Deseret News archives:
Governor's group should stick with efficacy
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. morphed his transition team into the Utah Policy Partnership group, composed of business and community leaders, "to explore and implement innovative ways to increase productivity, efficiency and direction within state government."
Right there, that's a mouthful. However, he recently described it as "more of a policy planning staff." It would be good for the governor to clarify for the public, and especially the turf-sensitive Legislature, the actual purpose of the UPP. Is it to plan public policy, or is it to advise the governor on how to make government more efficient and effective? If it's the former, then he is in trouble; if it's the latter, then the group might play a vital role.
Businesspeople and academicians understand their part of the world very well, but know little about how to make social institutions work. Unlike elected leaders, whose ideas and actions exist in a fishbowl for the world to scrutinize, businesspeople make decisions in closed boardrooms and academicians operate in the antiseptic faculty ranks protected by tenure. Politicians, however, are like football coaches; they have to produce on the field or end up looking for another post. They understand that for good public policy to be supported by the public, it must work for the general good. Most important, great leaders have a vision of what society "ought to be," rather than simply tending to the specialty parts.
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