Quips and Quotes from Old Governors to New
本文汇集了多位前州长对新任州长的建议，强调优先事项要少、善于借鉴旧想法、发挥领导力并关注长期影响，适合公共管理者和政治学研究者参考。
Keep your agenda short. You'll only have time to build the necessary coalitions around three or four major priorities. The governor is like a conductor; you get the players, shake hands and start playing. The governorship is a position of leadership: assert it. You cannot be a leader without being a manager. Negotiation with the staff to share goals and to establish definite benchmarks is essential. There's no such thing as a new idea. Be willing to copy, borrow, and freshen up the old ideas. I'm a strong advocate of planning, but you can't sit around and wait for the planning process to tell you what to do. Use the 20-year rule: what will the state look like 20 years out? The governorship has tremendous power. You'll want to ask yourself Have I with this power made a real difference in the lives of the people?