Accepting the Mission for Greatness

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Study of more than 75 major government initiatives using over 70 grad students maps a repeatable “journey to success” with a clear claim: Gov 2.0 tools cut failure risk at each stage. Concrete traps include Stargate (legislative→bureaucratic wormhole) and tolly syndrome (confirmation bias). Practical fixes tested or built are crowdsourcing (TSA Idea Factory), data mashups (Virtual Alabama), prototyping with IDEO-style gaming, prediction markets and X-Prize style outcome payments — all described as reducing overconfidence and surfacing implementation gaps.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:03If We Can Put a Man on the Moon
3. 2:58The Journey to Success
4. 5:00The Traps

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