What Jennifer Pahlka thinks about management

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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014.

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1. 7 Aug 2026

   Our readingWhen institutional transformation keeps failing, leaders should start fresh with new entities rather than keep reforming the old ones.

   Their wordswe've both come to believe that when transformation fails repeatedly, it's time for something different, and one of the tools that leaders need to add to their tool belts (and probably use a lot more frequently than they do today), is starting fresh, creating new entities (agencies and departments, for example) and either endowing them with new authorities or transferring authorities from legacy institutions to the new ones.

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