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All of this, of course, would require adequate
numbers and quality of staff. Other adequate resources,
creativity, credibility, visibility, openness, compassion,
energy, and sufficient independence and authority to effect
these expectations.
I think if you would take these goals or others
that you might come up with and crosswalk them with
different organizational options it might become more clear
what was the preferable locus for a federal office for
oversight.
We do not have to be gurus at public
administration to understand that there is a formal
organization and an informal organization. In some of the
most irrational organizational locations effectiveness can
happen, productivity can happen, and even at some of the
most ideally placed organizational levels apparently
sometimes things do not get done because there are so many
unanticipated consequences.
There are perturbations from the environment
that we do not expect and so something that looks ideal on
paper might not work either. But I think our goal is to
try to come up with the best place to maximize what needs
to be done and part of that is deciding what needs to be
done and coming to some consensus on that and then moving