====== The Fundamentals of Managing Infrastructure ======
 
  *  **A Tool for our Communities**: Physical infrastructure is a tool we manage for our communities to use, not an end in itself   [[Stewards of the 21st Century:A Tool for our Communities]]\\
  * **Good Infrastructure Management is Largely Invisible**: what our communities need is physical infrastructure that works, that someone is taking care of without them tripping over it   [[Stewards of the 21st Century:Good Infrastructure Management is Largely Invisible]]\\
  * **Infrastructure is Complex**: there are few easy decisions in physical infrastructure, which means we need all the knowledge, critical thinking and evidence we can muster  [[Stewards of the 21st Century:Infrastructure is Complex]]\\
  * **Taking Responsibility for Connection**: Our communities have delegated the management to us – including the worrying about the systems, the future, and change  [[Stewards of the 21st Century:Taking Responsibility for Connection]]\\
  * **Thinking as a Steward**: the assets are in no sense ours to do what we like with, or in service to our own interests  [[Stewards of the 21st Century:Thinking as a Steward]]\\
  * **Asking the Right Questions**: why are we doing this, what happens next, what are we choosing not to do, who benefits?  [[Stewards of the 21st Century:Asking the Right Questions]]\\
  * **We Need Our People**: We ourselves are dependent on the people who work for us also to make good use of their range of knowledge and experience  [[Stewards of the 21st Century:We Need Our People]]\\

For the tools you need: [[Stewards of the 21st Century:Tools]]