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William D. Eggers

William D. Eggers

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William D. Eggers is the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Government Insights. A noted expert on government reform, he has authored or co-authored nine books, including Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems, Delivering on Digital, The Solution Revolution, If We Can Put a Man on the Moon and Governing by Network.

Eggers' 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.

The training grounds for our future public servants, William Eggers writes, are producing lots of future consultants, lobbyists and nonprofit executives.
Experts don't come up with the best ideas. A large group of people is better at solving complex problems than an expert, no matter how brilliant.
What the Obama campaign taught us about collaboration.
Knowledge is power: State and local officials are handicapped by their lack of good financial data.
Government innovators need to encourage a culture of innovation in which failure is not a four-letter word.
Good ideas alone take you only so far. The policy world, after all, is littered with big ideas, badly executed.
States are more agile than the federal government in their ability to experiment with new solutions and to overcome partisan hurdles.