Lenny Mendonca
Lenny Mendonca, Senior Fellow at the Presidio Institute, is a former director of McKinsey & Company.
Lenny Mendonca, Senior Fellow at the Presidio Institute, is a former director of McKinsey & Company.
The US is a global outlier in tying much of its social safety net to employment, with social-welfare spending averaging just 16% of GDP, compared to 23% in Europe. With inequality and income distribut… read more
High-quality early childhood education is one of those rare issues that unites people of all social strata and across the political spectrum. But the consensus about the benefits – both for the childr… read more
To listen to America’s Republican presidential candidates, one might conclude that the US government can do nothing right. But a remarkable bipartisan consensus is emerging around an approach to major… read more
When Facebook’s founder and his wife announced plans to devote some $45 billion in Facebook shares toward making the world a better place, some critics wrote off the move as a public-relations ploy. I… read more
Digital platforms are transforming how labor markets operate and revolutionizing the nature of work. In many ways, this is a positive development, but it is also undermining the traditional employer-e… read more
With tuition rising and some institutions of higher education underperforming, there is a need for new models of education delivery. In the US, “progressive” federalism – whereby the federal governmen… read more
The US has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prison population – about 2.2 million people, five times as many as in 1980. The question America now faces is how to cut the onerous soc… read more
Once again, California’s Silicon Valley is confirming its status as a mecca of high-tech entrepreneurship and wealth creation. But it is not a model for job creation and inclusive growth that policyma… read more
Effective workforce training requires identifying the necessary skills, creating the structures to teach them, and matching trained workers with available jobs. Investment must be accompanied by innov… read more
