Alain C. Enthoven Quotes
Real change happens a step at a time.
Alain C. Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Quoted in John Hubner, "The Abandoned Father of Health-Care Reform," New York Times Magazine, July 18, 1993
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This statement is very revealing in that it illustrates the attitude of the establishment of most developing nations. Traditional change is OK as long as it is not does transformational—ie as long as it does not make any meaningful changes. But modernization requires transformational change; without it there is no major reform and all institutions and power structures remain in their positions.
The inventor of the Chi Square and Correlation Coefficient statistical methods. The lecture was also published as a political pamphlet. Pearson criticized the English Socialists who were calling for substantial immediate reforms on many fronts. Many of the reforms had much general support and the major political issue was the pace of reform.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Interestingly he was known as a reformer and his critics suggested that he reformed too fast.
Alain C. Enthoven is an American economist. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965, and from 1965 to 1969, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Currently, he is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
