In 1992, David Osborne, a journalist, and Ted Gaebler, a former city manager, wrote a best-selling book that became the handbook or inspirational guide for the Clinton Administration’s National Performance Review. Their book, Reinventing Government, How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector, leads the cheer for the latest round of reforms that was beginning to erupt in state and local governments, and suggests the same reforms for the federal government. The primary message delivered in Reinventing Government is that ....