Creating Public Value by Mark H. Moore

Somewhere between the neutral administrator directing democratically enacted legislation and the Nuremberg directive to resist injustice and corruption lies the modern manager searching for public value. This manager lives on the "razors edge" balancing competing political, ethical, and organizational issues in a daily search to create public value through the organization. The psychological pressure of these complex demands requires a great deal of poise and balance. As a manager you may have the administrative skills, but do you have the moral capacity? It can be a long lonely road to seek justice and oppose corruption.