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Combining Heart and Mind: The Hardest Skill

Combining Heart and Mind: The Hardest Skill

Interpersonal connections, high emotional IQ, context and words matter, the high care and high accountability…these skills are actually the “harder skills,” cultivated with time and experience, reflection and self-awareness.…

Leaders – Don’t Underestimate Your Role in Creating a Sense of Belonging

Leaders – Don’t Underestimate Your Role in Creating a Sense of Belonging

While it may be uncomfortable to say something, think about a time when you experienced being unjustly questioned about your credentials or when someone made a demeaning comment to you,…

Understanding How Constrictive Gender Norms Contribute to Extremist Ideology

Understanding How Constrictive Gender Norms Contribute to Extremist Ideology

In an era of internet bullying and physical harm, understanding who incels are, and why the violence carried out by Elliot Rodger speaks to them, is imperative. …

Successful Hazard Mitigation Planning Starts at the Local Level: How It Is Failing at the Local Level

Successful Hazard Mitigation Planning Starts at the Local Level: How It Is Failing at the Local Level

The increasing prevalence and cost of billion-dollar disasters should be a wake-up call for all levels of government that the status quo on LMS planning is no longer a viable…

Public Administration Scholarship and the Epidemic of Academic Fraud and Dishonesty Part 1 – Symptoms of a Cataclysm

Public Administration Scholarship and the Epidemic of Academic Fraud and Dishonesty Part 1 – Symptoms of a Cataclysm

This column discusses the outlines of widespread academic fraud and dishonesty in the use of those research methods and then begins to examine how powerful incentives developed over the past…

Digital Public Benefits: A New Era Takes Hold

Digital Public Benefits: A New Era Takes Hold

The gradual removal of cash benefits, cards and other forms of physical money are moving us toward a cashless, electronic digital world and, at the same time, adds additional administrative…

What Constructivism Contributes to Public Administration

What Constructivism Contributes to Public Administration

Understanding the perception of citizens, their experiences, values and environment may help public administrators craft policies that address constituent concerns. …

A Better Way for States to Tax Business

A Better Way for States to Tax Business

Unlike the CBT, this tax is simple and does not distort business decisions, does not discriminate between business types and need not impose an undue burden on any business entity.…

Education Savings Accounts (ESA) – Learn to Save, Save to Learn!

Education Savings Accounts (ESA) – Learn to Save, Save to Learn!

Every parent must decide whether to support school choice through ESAs or just stick with the status quo—there is no middle ground on this issue. …

Democracy: The Math of Counting Everyone

Democracy: The Math of Counting Everyone

Public service should be a space where the appetite for positive and constructive assistance is never satisfied. The story of public service is not about you. The story of public…

The Devaluation of Governmental Learning

The Devaluation of Governmental Learning

I believe that in this new age of high tech, high speed and high volume information sharing across all sectors of our day-to-day lives, "The Devaluation of Governmental Learning" has…