In the face of ever more complex societal challenges this book provides an essential new model
for transforming the public sector and getting things done. Pandemics. Climate change. Refugee
resettlement. Global supply chains. We face a new generation of complex problems that stretch
across the public and private sectors and flow over organizational boundaries. To meet the
moment we need a fresh new approach that strengthens institutions and government agencies by
breaking free from organizational boxes and rigid top-down leadership. As William D. Eggers
executive director of Deloitte's Center for Government Insights and Donald F. Kettl public
management scholar show in this indispensable book we need a government of bridgebuilders who
collaborate with partners-inside and outside government-to get the job done. These leaders
manage horizontally instead of vertically they see their role as connectors and they identify
which players have the assets needed to solve the unprecedented problems at hand. Each chapter
examines one of the ten core principles of bridgebuilding and features practical tips and
dynamic cases of how effective leaders have put each bridgebuilding principle to work. The book
also includes a special section that helps government leaders create a hundred-day
bridgebuilding plan. Throughout Eggers and Kettl tell fascinating and instructive stories
about some of today's bridgebuilders-federal state and local government leaders who transcend
boundaries partner across sectors and get stuff done. Trusted and effective government has
never been more important than today. Bridgebuilders provides a new model that current
government decision makers-as well as young leaders who aspire to public service-can learn from
and apply right now to transform government and restore public trust.
