Making Washington Work: Tales of Innovation in the Federal GovernmentEverybody knows federal agencies are brain dead leviathans. Everybody knows that the watchword of federal management is that's the way we've always done it. Everybody knows that any creativity within American government shows up only in the cities and states. Everybody's wrong. In 1995 the Ford Foundation's annual Innovation in American Government award competition was opened up to federal candidates and a third of the winners since then have been