Planning Amnesia: Don’t forsake your core competencies as a planner in the face of legal contracts | Long Term Planning| Risk Assessment | Adaptive Management | #16

Summary: Today’s Private Side Challenge is keeping your wits about you when confronted with a Public Private Partnership deal. Last week we discussed issues that arises with private financing of public infrastructure. One of the things that struck me was that the in the worst of these deals, governments are throwing away their best capabilities – the ability to do strategic and long term planning in favor of a pseudo wall-street hack….