William D. Eggers 
William D. Eggers is the director of public-sector research at Deloitte. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including "If We Can Put a Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government," "The Public Innovators' Playbook," "Government 2.0" and "Governing by Network." His next book, "Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises are Teaming up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems," will be published by Harvard Business Press in August 2013.
His writings have won numerous awards including the Louis Brownlow award for best book on public management, the Sir Antony Fisher award for best book promoting an understanding of the free economy, and the Roe Award for leadership and innovation in public-policy research. A former manager of the Texas Performance Review and director of e-Texas, he has advised governments around the world, and his commentaries have appeared in dozens of major media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune.
Recent Articles
- The Promise of Open Government
- How the Obama administration's Open Government Directive can unlock government and open it up to citizens as never before.
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- Groundhog Day for Government: Avoiding the Same Old Traps
- Successful public-sector initiatives follow a predictable path.
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- Getting Past the Blame Game
- Hurricane Katrina is the reigning poster child for government failure. In the days and weeks that followed, pundits and politicians rushed to fix blame on...
- The Pension Time Bomb, Part II
- How can governments escape the ?scal black hole some already have entered and others are on the verge of falling into? Unfortunately, there is no...
- ARRA: Going Beyond Compliance
- The stimulus law's transparency requirements are an opportunity for governments to transform themselves permanently.
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- The Pension Time Bomb -- Part I
- In April 2005, San Diego mayor Dick Murphy stepped before a hastily assembled crowd of news reporters and announced his resignation. Murphy, elected just five...
- Failing the Right Way
- Government innovators need to encourage a culture of innovation in which failure is not a four-letter word.
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- Government 2.0's Inauguration
- What the Obama campaign taught us about collaboration.
- Financial Insight: Key for Tough Times
- Knowledge is power: State and local officials are handicapped by their lack of good financial data.
- Innovation: Beyond the 'Big Bang'
- Even those organizations doing some of the most creative work in government haven't necessarily created a culture of innovation, writes William D. Eggers. So how does government innovate more consistently?
- No More One Size Fits All
- Breaking down the larger customer population into subgroups that share similar characteristics allows organizations to service the unique needs of each group more efficiently and effectively, writes William D. Eggers.
- Improving the Government Brand
- The training grounds for our future public servants, William Eggers writes, are producing lots of future consultants, lobbyists and nonprofit executives.
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- Serving the Aging Citizen
- In less than two decades, the number of Americans 65 and older will more than double in at least 20 states.
- A Window of Opportunity for New State Leaders
- States are more agile than the federal government in their ability to experiment with new solutions and to overcome partisan hurdles.
- Bold Ideas and the Real World
- Good ideas alone take you only so far. The policy world, after all, is littered with big ideas, badly executed.
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