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From The Carriage to The Convocation: How Community Development Can Finance Your Child’s Education
Let’s end student loans now! Every year, a child in America is plotted on a path towards a college degree. A tradition which never ends, parents begin their two decades’…
Humor – The Secret of Great Public Leadership
How’s your funny bone doing lately? Have you been taking your colleagues, employees, yourself and others too seriously for your own good? You might even have forgotten how powerful humor…
Police Officers as Street Bureaucrats
As a professor of public administration, facilitating a series of conversations between police and neighborhood residents in Wilmington, NC has provided many teachable moments. One of these situations is the…
How Do Our Budgets Measure Up?
Many times, the public sector has been called upon to do “more with less.” Today, with the earthquake emanating from the Trump administration, the public sector will be fortunate to…
Establishing Effective Government Program and Project Management Offices
As the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) works on implementing the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act (PMIAA), Federal agencies are considering how to incorporate PMIAA into their agency…
Remote Traps – Avoid the Missteps of Remote Management
According to recent data, the trend of remote working continues to grow at a strong pace in the U.S. In a recent Gallup poll 43 percent of employed Americans stated…
The Use of Enterprise Funds in America’s Local Governments
An Enterprise Fund is created when a public service generates sufficient revenues to pay for its cost. It is a simple concept, and one gaining in popularity among public officials…
The Primacy of Rules in Government
I believe people outside of government don’t appreciate how much day-to-day government behavior is driven by rules.…
Are You Ready to Improve Employee Engagement?
In this column and elsewhere, I've argued that improving the level of employee engagement can be a key way for government organizations to deliver consistently high quality service. The research,…
Teaching Ethical Leadership: From Individual Action to Organizational Systems
A survey of the literature, textbooks and syllabi on ethics education (along with my own personal observations over the years) reveals that formal ethics education in public administration degree programs…
Agricultural and Food Policy Updates
With much of my attention focused on the wobbly and uncertain path of the American Health Care Act as its moves through the United States Senate, I’ve had to remind…
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