Adjusting the central mind of governments to adversity

Growing incapacities to govern result largely from the relative stability of core components of central mind of governments (CMG) for more than 5,000 years, as compared with jumps in conditions, demands and policy instruments. To better handle present and fore seeable adversities, selective-radicalism adjustments are therefore needed in CMG, within a broad approach to governance redesign. In particular, CMG needs upgrading in respect to reality assessment and outlook, overall and long range process-system view, coherence, fuzzy-gambling sophistication, grand-policy thinking, policy-paradigm iconoclasm, crisis decision-making capacities, creativity and innovativeness, realistic visions, constructive- destruction command authority enlightenment abilities and high-quality and rapid learn ing. To better realize such requisites, a number of main institutional recommendations are developed, including advanced supports for top decision makers, think tank clusters, novel policy professionals, task-force structures, policy-enlightenment systems for the public at large and policy effectiveness and policy-making process audit. In conclusion, governance retrofitting is proposed as a main concern for political science, together with other relevant disciplines.