“I LITERALLY went home every night for the first three months and said, “Oh, my God, what have I gotten myself into?’,” Boston’s mayor, Marty Walsh, recently told the Boston Globe. Jorge Elorza, Providence’s mayor, remembers sitting in his office after he was sworn in and wondering “how do we begin?” Many mayors are skilled campaigners, but being in office requires a different set of qualities. Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester’s mayor and one of the attendees, was in post just 14 days when his city endured a terrorist attack. American companies spend around $15bn a year in leadership development, but there is little, if any, training for public-sector chief executives.
Michael Bloomberg, New York’s former mayor, hopes to change that. Thanks to a $32m gift his charity, Bloomberg Philanthropies, along with Harvard’s Business and Kennedy Schools, has created a year-long programme designed for serving mayors. The inaugural cohort began...Continue reading
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