At The Huffington Post, Steven G. Brant talks about transforming the culture of politics in the United States and he has a place for the Baldrige program in his transformational process proposal.

The goal would be to formally build collaboration back into a legislative system wracked by partisan politics. Brant believes business would play a key role in this effort because it “knows a lot about how to get people from different cultures to work together.”

The driver of the transformation would be “a newly constituted President’s Council on Legislative Effectiveness, which would combine the spirit of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness with the organizational effectiveness principles championed by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program.”

The Baldrige model has proven to be transformational with core values that certainly support such a Council. “Visionary leadership” and “valuing workforce members and partners” are relevant, as are “management by fact,” “societal responsibility,” and a “focus on results.” In fact, evaluating legislative effectiveness using the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence would clarify the gap between current and desired legislative performance. That would give the President’s Council a good list of things to work on.

In 2007, the City of Coral Springs, Florida, received the Baldrige Award. The President’s Council might want to talk to the city about how its leaders managed partisan differences to better serve their constituents. Its journey started in 1993 when city leaders decided to follow a corporate management model that is customer focused and data driven.

That’s a good place to start in transforming politics in this country.

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