.Philip_Elliott explains how one of America's richest men become the nation's mayoral tutor for The D.C. Brief
here in D.C. What started as an anecdotal observation quickly became front-of-mind for future calls among mayors—and on their staff meetings back home.
But mayors also can be some of the least prepared to actually run their cities. The skill sets that make good politicians aren’t necessarily the same ones called for to run a bureaucracy that can rival some states in budgets, demands, and competing interests. And it’s a skills gap that voters, acting as city H.R. chiefs, often choose to ignore.
Bloomberg officials aren’t ones to brag, but the data speaks for itself. With the new class—including the mayors of Los Angeles, Tallahassee, and Providence, R.I— 275 mayors and more than 400 top top aides have gone through the program at the year-long Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in the last six years.
Although Bloomberg Philanthropies funds public health, arts, education, and environmental programs—to the tune of $1.7 billion last year alone—the government efforts are what probably are seen every day in your cities. For instance, investing inhas been a long priority for Bloomberg himself, and thus his charities.
Most of the mayors who enter into his group’s Harvard program, he says, “don’t have the skills and the capacity on hand to do the type of complex collaboration that this moment requires.”
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