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The Origins and Practice of Delivery SSIR Opinion & Analysis By Sir Michael Barber This article was published by McKinsey & Company in honor of the Skoll World Forum . In a recent speech, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim noted that delivery is a major challenge for leaders across the world. We need a science of delivery, he argued. No leader of the World Bank has ever made a more important case. And the good news is that the science he wants is ready to emerge. This is the story of how it began. In June 2001, Tony Blair was elected to a second term as the British prime minister. A few days later, he asked me to set up the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU), tasked with securing the implementation and delivery of his domestic policy priorities. Delivery meant more than passing laws and writing speeches. It meant changing the facts on the ground and ensuring that citizens could see and feel the difference. Our task was to trans...

Economist's View 'This is Bad Economics ... But it is Excellent Preaching' James Surowiecki : It's been a great couple of weeks for David Stockman. Granted, he's been called "unhinged," "nonsensical," and "a cranky old man," after arguing in the Times that the current bull market is a huge bubble, and that America's economic woes stem from the Federal Reserve's profligacy and from F.D.R.'s taking us off the gold standard. But the controversy has made his new book, "The Great Deformation," a best-seller...  He's an ideologue, but he's an honest one. Still, honesty gets you only so far, and Stockman's ... thesis is unconvincing. He thinks that, when bad times hit, the government should just let events play out, rather than use discretionary fiscal or m...

SSIR Opinion & Analysis The Future City By Shaina Doar and Jonathan K. Law This article was published by McKinsey & Company in honor of the Skoll World Forum . No one knows the exact day or place, but sometime in 2008, a person moved into a city and established a milestone: the moment when, for the first time, more than half the world's population lived in urban areas. More than six billion people will live in cities by 2030, according to the United Nations—almost double from when that unknown person left home for the city. McKinsey has worked with cities around the world to create large-scale initiatives that help shift the trajectory of a city's economy. Delivery is essential to fostering sustainable and inclusive growth. It begins with a strategy that is rigorous, fact-based, and market-disciplined, and builds from a city's exi...

Fed Watch: When Can We All Admit the Euro is an Economic Failure? Economist's View Tim Duy: When Can We All Admit the Euro is an Economic Failure?, by Tim Duy : The last month of data flow from Europe is nothing short of depressing. It seems that the history of the Eurocrisis can be summed up as a repeated effort to snatch failure from the jaws of defeat. The Euro and the policy framework that supports it is now clearly inconsistent with anything but sustained recession. Consider a handful of recent reports. First, unemployment continues to reach new highs. From Bloomberg : Unemployment in the 17-nation euro area was 12 percent in February and the January figure was revised up to the same level from 11.9 percent estimated earlier, the European Union's statistics office in Luxembourg said today...The European Commission predicts unemployment rates of 12.2 percent this year and 12.1 percent in 2014. ECB President Mario ...

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