Actually the only way to learn how to do it is to... well...do it. I made a few mistakes myself in my brief sojourns as well as managing to do a few things that I felt were worthwhile. Hindsight is always 20/20 but I find these bullet points by Mark Harrison on the business of running a department to be the nearest one can get to wisdom on the matter.
Two stories from a USAID career
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“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID
bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in
Sudan.” —...
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