Problem: It is the nature of organizations to grow over time. They add people, they add rules & regulations. Some of this addition is a Good Thing. But clearly, it can become a Bad Thing. And what’s worse, if an organization has grown horribly off-course, there is often no practical way to reform it radically. [...]
Need/Problem: Federal (nation-wide) regulations offer many benefits: especially uniformity & stability. Uniformity – I mean, really, what large-scale company/nonprofit wants to keep track of 50 different sets of state-level regulations! Stability – If you are fearful that regulations will change, that uncertainty causes hesitation and slows economic activity. One set of federal regulations would be [...]
Here is my latest “could not happen in the real world but I find the thought so fascinating it keeps me up at night.” Relevant Problems: * Our votes rarely count for much of anything on anything other than the extreme local level – simply because of how many people there are and(in the same of some [...]
