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Usually, in the first 24-36 hours of an event, life safety is of the utmost importance and leadership in these events falls to public safety functions in police and fire. After…
Truth to power is a rallying call to speak out in the face of injustice, to speak out against authoritarian regimes, to raise the voices of those vulnerable people among…
An instinctive reaction, especially from our community, is to disapprove of this change. However, maybe our cognitive and social biases play an important role: we are loss averse. In the…
Although this series of articles has presented the theme that government is the solution, these types of traumatic incidents beg the counter question of what happens when government or perhaps…
Developing a structure that allows for the collection of inputs, outputs and outcomes is critically important to the development of a performance management system. Understanding their relationship is the key…
For decades, the trend within government agencies and throughout the federal bureaucracy has been one of increasing diversity. Not only has diversity been shown to position the workplace to better…
Recently, in one of my MPA classes, I covered the topic of public service motivation. In preparation for the class, the students read the article “Public Service Motivation Research: Lessons…
Facts Matter, and We Can Show our Students Exactly How
Every fall my budgeting and financial management students play the part of a legislative budget analyst. They take a real Wisconsin budget proposal, analyze it, and present it to the…
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