Opinion-editorial writers fill newspaper columns with what they believe are wrong with the world. They cite theories and recommend what needs to be done, which may range from legislating news laws, kicking out incompetent people from political office, to reducing red tape.
Absent in many of these op-eds is the how. How would what these op-ed writers are recommending be done?
It’s one thing to say leaders must enact new laws, hire talented people, and make services simpler. It’s another to say how that would be achieved.
Systems & structures underlie the activities of society. It’s easy to point to problems for leaders to fix but it becomes a challenge to tell them how.
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