Public office requirements

Thinking about the question of whether previous public office holding should be a prerequisite for candidate consideration, especially at the mayoral, senate, house, and governor levels.

What’s clear is that many who have long office holding tenure have two proven competencies: marketing a platform of positions and showing up for votes. As useful as both are, they are no substitutes for competencies related to economic development, entrepreneurship, venture capital funding, project management, community building, leadership, research and policy development, civic engagement design, public private partnership building, and regional collaboration.

These are the competencies of people with intellect and presence.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at 5:12pm and is filed under Appreciative living. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Public office requirements”

  1. Tom Christoffel
    December 1st, 2008 00:53
    1

    Google’s Blog alert sent me to this post because of the term “regional collaboration.” This post should be useful to subscribers of Regional Community Development News, so I will include a link to it in the December 10 issue. It can be found at
    http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/ Please visit, check the tools and consider a link. Tom

« In the land of joy
Dissent »