Chapter 1 Knock Down Barriers

A Siloed Perspective Guarantees Failure

CHAPTER GUIDE

   Learning to Solve the Right Problems

   The Bridgebuilding Imperative

   Blended Government: The New Reality

   The Art of Bridgebuilding

   Toward a New Generation of Bridgebuilders

   Ten Ways Bridgebuilders Can Knock Down Barriers

As the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina’s 2005 battering of the Louisiana coast struggled to get rolling, it quickly became clear that the effort needed stronger leadership. CNN’s Anderson Cooper walked New Orleans’ flooded streets in hip waders. Viewers knew that he was there—but the government was not. Images burned into the public consciousness: families stuck on the roofs of their flooded homes, others ...

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