About This Book
Government isn't too broken to solve big problems—it's just stuck in the wrong mindset.
Mitchell Weiss, a former public official and Harvard Business School professor, argues that the real obstacle isn't bureaucracy—it's a culture of Probability Government, where leaders default to safe solutions and borrowed best practices. We the Possibility makes the case for a different approach: public leadership willing to imagine, experiment and scale. Weiss draws on vivid examples—a hoverboard prototype at US Special Operations Command, a heroin hackathon in Cincinnati, Covid-19 experiments in Singapore—to show what entrepreneurial government actually looks like in practice.
For civic leaders, policy makers and anyone frustrated by the gap between public problems and public solutions, this book offers a concrete framework and a credible argument that government can still do new things—and that the shift required is less about resources than about courage.