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Creating Competition — Without Creating Losers
Indeed, if the managers of every “team” has such comparative data, many may already be competing, if only in their own minds. After all, some of them believe they are…
Reinventing “Reinventing Government” for the Digital Twin Age of Public Administration
What happened to reinventing government in the last twenty-five years? Even if a reinventing government project succeeds, it is hard to sustain. And many reinventing government projects were initiated by…
To Teach or Not To Teach—Insights from a Practitioner Instructor
If your last contact with higher education was as a student or a brush with the system as a guest lecturer, you may find the educational environment to be different…
The Twilight of Old Government: Timeless Lessons in Public Service
While I cannot speak for every public servant around the world, my hopes and wishes for next year and years to come can be summed up as Pax Governo, or…
Baseball, Markets and Revitalizing the Middle Class
Recently, there has been some discussion in the public administration community about revitalizing the middle class in America. Personally, I’m more concerned with relieving the discomfort of the millions of people…
Transition of Age
Today I would contend that the public administration employment sector at all levels is going through a major Transition of Age. This claim is defined and driven by basic observational…
Elective or Compulsory Requirement? The Role of Public Administration Program Curricular in Promoting Diversity
If public administration programs continue to offer diversity courses as an elective, forget it, we are not ready to move the needle.…
Universities Can Play A Key Data Role in Supporting Equity
If you listen for it, the topic of equity is inescapable in current political, policy and administrative debates. In many cases, for equity to be discussed more widely, someone…
Cultural Diversity in the Community and the Workplace
Lately, it seems that the word “diversity” is oozing from everywhere — sometimes positively, and some others, negatively. …
Comfort with Ambiguity: Why it Matters and Ways to Teach it
Recently my undergraduate Public Administration students completed their unit on leadership. I lecture on theory, the specifics of how to construct a work plan, the importance of culture, etc. But…
Where Have All the Statesmen Gone?
Apologies to Pete Seeger, but the cycle described in his 1965 song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” fits our present discussion of statesmanship quite handily. There have been several…
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