The public management of a government is always a compromise between the exercise of established administrative functions and the innovations driven by politics. Correspondingly, we have civil servants, more focused on ensuring the former, and political personnel, more focused on the latter. Management will be good if the fit between the motivations and temperaments of both groups is good, and if the level of competence of each is high. Ideally, the natural conservatism of the civil servant will be tempered by the drive of political personnel, and vice versa. Note: the contrast of the competent civil servant and the incompetent politician is a caricature. There are all sorts in both groups.

She wields the baton with equal parts energy and delicacy. With passion and elegance. She always smiles at the musicians. Or perhaps she smiles at the music. When Noemí Pasquina (Cardona, 1987) began her career as a cellist, she never dared to imagine that she would become a conductor. "There were no role models. I had never seen a woman conducting an orchestra," she recalls. But years later, she traded the cello for the baton. This native of Cardona is one of the few female conductors in Catalonia and is fighting to make her mark in a world still dominated by men. Pasquina, who trained in Barcelona, ​​Manresa, Madrid, and The Hague, has so far conducted orchestras in Spain, France, and Romania.