This public direction case places pupils in the shoes of King County Executive Ron Sims, the top elected official in Washington State's largest and most diverse county. The year is 2005, and Sims wants to take a high profile leadership role on the climate change issue-locally and on the national stage-by handling the almost uncharted realm of "adaptation," preparing at the local level for impacts of climate change considered inescapable.
In addition to addressing particular generic direction challenges-the best way to navigate the challenging intersection of politics and science, the best way to consider uncertainty, how to make an argument for long term investments, the way to prove successful on both local and national period-the case has the advantage of introducing readers to a powerful modern-day public problem, sure to grow in urgency globally. The case details the collection of concerns that went into Sims' decision to take on the adaptation issue, including a simple summary of a concurrent local discourse about designing a new wastewater treatment plant to deliver reclaimed water to customers in the future, if needed. HKS Case Amount 1906.0
PUBLICATION DATE: June 16, 2009 PRODUCT #: HKS107-PDF-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
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