We wrote this book to make the journey easier. We thought that if people learned more about how to reinvent, they would be more successful at it. And success, we hope, will breed more success. This kind of snowballing is how innovations spread through society. It is how societies typically shift their basic paradigms-not all at once, but a little at a time.
Big changes start out slowly, tentatively.
Some efforts fail, but others lead to greater opportunities. Gradually, people spread the word. In 1993 he served as a senior adviser to Vice President Al Gore, providing intellectual guidance to Gore's National Performance Review and serving as chief author of its 1993 report. He is also a founder and former board chairman of the Alliance for Redesigning Government, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, and a member of the Education Commission of the States' National Commission on Governing America's Schools. Peter Plastrik is a co-author of Banishing Bureaucracy , as well as the author of many articles and columns about reinventing government, community development, and economic development.