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The Makings of a Good Municipal Budget Document
A municipal budget is so much more than numbers - it is a binding contract by which government officials translate the values of the community they serve into an actionable…
The Wrecking Crew – Time Magazine’s Provocative November 6 Story
The cover of the November 6 issue of Time shows three large wrecking balls with the title: “The Wrecking Crew – How Trump’s cabinet is dismantling government as we know…
STAR TREKING Public Workforce Management
In this age of extreme technological advancement and change-by-the-second, it is highly appropriate to take a strategic look at public sector workforce management. Today more than ever before, the public…
The MPA Advantage
This fall, I started my journey to attain a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree - the professional degree for public management. Students who pursue a Master of Public Administration…
How to Prevent Soft-targeting in Government Performance Management Systems
We do not have to be a trained psychoanalyst to know this much — we humans are wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Referred to as the “pleasure principle”…
What A Leader Must Do
There are thousands of books on leadership; someone once suggested that as many as 500 new titles relating to leadership appear every year and there as many articles in journals…
Open Wide — I Want to Check Your Heart
My dentist knows the condition of my teeth, gums and tongue. My doctor is familiar with my tongue too, but concentrates on the back of my throat as well as…
Performance Management and Education
In recent years, there has been a lot of speculation about educator’s pay being attached to their school’s performances in standardized testing. Some are all for it while others are…
Improving Communication and Coordination through Compstat: An Opportunity for Learning and Enhanced Performance
Compstat has become one and the same with progressive police management and is believed to increase accountability among managers for the reduction of crime. Police agencies have widely adopted Compstat…
Driving a City’s Financial Recovery: An Interview with Detroit CFO John Hill (Part II)
Three years after concluding the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, Detroit may be released next spring from the oversight of a state financial review commission (FRC). If an independent…
The Nation’s Top Seven Percent
They are America’s veterans – and we need to support them much better than we have as Americans. The Top Seven Percent are not a monolithic group. Each veteran is…
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