Even before she had a chance to take over the Maryland Governor's chair last month, Shaila Aery confronted her first crisis: two guards held hostage in a state prison uprising. Aery remembers thinking, "Where can I hide?" Fortunately the real Governor, William Donald Schaefer, alerted to the emergency, was already at his desk. But for Aery, normally secretary of higher education, it was a dramatic introduction to a unique job-swapping scheme in which the Governor ordered state Cabinet officials to exchange portfolios every morning for a month, then write reports and suggestions based on their experiences.
Schaefer, who moved temporarily to...
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