Moses learned reform is useless without pledged executive support

Evidence

In an attempt to help men who might try to reform civil service in other cities, Moses summed up in a speech to a political science convention “certain deductions” which he had made from his experiences. The main deduction was a simple one. “Executive support” was the essential you could not do without. “When a program for standardization work is first made,” he said bitterly, “an effort should be made to get the persons who are responsible to pledge themselves to stand squarely behind the program.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 373

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