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| ====== The Fundamentals of Managing Infrastructure ====== | ====== The Fundamentals of Managing Infrastructure ====== |
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| * **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]]\\ | * **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]]\\ | * **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]]\\ | * **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]]\\ | * **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]]\\ | * **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]]\\ | * **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]]\\ | * **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]]\\ |
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| | For the tools you need: [[Stewards of the 21st Century:Tools]] |
