I just stumbled on this article Marc Ambinder wrote in The Atlantic Monthly last month about how Barack Obama may “transform governance just as he has transformed campaigning.”  This little nugget stood out and I thought it was worth sharing:

Communication and transparency are virtues only up to a point; as students of bureaucracies know, both eventually become an enemy to efficiency. Moreover, if [a] presidency invited more input than it could reasonably weigh and respond to, it would quickly squander the networking capital that the campaign has built.

MixedInk’s was built precisely to address these challenges.  We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.  Thanks, Marc!

david

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