ABSTRACT
A practical way of illustrating prudential judgment is to see what it takes to be "good" at a team sport. Prudential judgment is not an abstract idea, but a very practical notion that can be seen around us on a daily basis. Prudential judgment is reflected in the way in which challenges can be redefined as moral callings to improve the public good. Public service leaders are entering an era where the standards for measuring success have grown ever-more numerous and complex. Hood Forest Stewardship plan, the role of leadership in catalyzing a new public governance capacity-building initiative was highly dialogical. Dialogical processes like those illustrated in the vision action network, Mt. Hood Forest Stewardship plan and the medler school system are exercises in prudential judgment. The "new normal" requires making sense out of the network of organizational, social, political, economic and technological interdependencies and forces at work in the environment.
