To serve the public interest, public managers extend their analytic reach to encompass as many and as much as needed to dismantle bogus barriers imposed on public problem solving by limited viewpoints and biased perceptions. How? Often through expertise, experience, and reflection, as well as very important dialogue with the public, officials, and peers. Logically, then, there may be no a priori exclusion of a class of others. Only broad inclusion can begin to satisfy the injunction, pursue the public interest.
twofold: (1) to stress the imperative of using public office for the public interest and (2) to remind us how we are so strongly attached and give such high priority to our personal perspectives and attachments. Pursuing a public rather than a personal agenda, ethical managers expansively reach out in order not to allow bias in reason- ing to blur their view or partiality in treatment sneak into their behavior.