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Why government should kick its addiction to failed top-down controls Despite the ubiquity and longevity of top down control by government through performance measurement and management (PMM) regimes  - they rarely work. They are foiled by the reality of the complex settings of most of the priority outcomes articulated by successive governments. And they are doomed because they are underpinned by a profoundly flawed view of what motivates public servants to perform, learn and