This book's editors and more than 30 contributors have done our community of public managers a great service by framing the issue of cultural competency and harnessing good governance tools and techniques more fully than has been achieved to date. As a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey during the mid-1960s, a trained cultural anthropologist, community organizer, and long-time career federal program manager and executive, I confess to a clear bias on the topic of this book.