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Ten Notable Resources for Identifying When and How to Collaborate
Here we present resources on diagnosing opportunities for cross-sector collaboration – tools, reports and scholarly articles to help leaders assess whether cross-sector collaboration is needed, which form of collaboration is…
Measuring the Community Impact of Faculty
As the director of an MPA program at an urban research university, I have the responsibility to build enrollments, monitor and assess teaching and student success, foster an environment where…
America’s Infrastructure: Is Our Country on the Road to Ruin?!
The prevailing philosophy of our national government has been to let the lower levels of government (states, counties and cities) solve their own infrastructure problems, regardless of the nature of their…
Driving a City’s Financial Recovery: An Interview with Detroit CFO John Hill
Jason Juffras spoke with Detroit chief financial officer (CFO) John Hill to learn about Detroit’s financial crisis and nascent recovery. Mr. Hill also played a major role in Washington, D.C.’s…
The Lesson: Don’t Throw a Plunger at a Dart Board
One simple rule of darts is in the name of the game: You’ll only succeed if you use darts. If you try to throw a plunger at a dart board,…
Filling the Ranks
A high school’s senior year is rife with choices. They ask the inevitable question: “Where do we go from here?” The paths are endless, and that uncertain resolve leads us…
Using “Happiness” as a Measure of Community Performance in Shrinking Cities
In 2012, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network published their ‘World Happiness Report’ for the first time. Since this report, ‘happiness’, or its more encompassing term ‘well-being’, is starting…
Stranded Resources and Servant Leadership: Public Service in 2017 and Beyond
The whole world is screaming. It’s become a global activity. In some places, it’s the only activity. Public servants hear various screams, too — constituent screams. In fact, one can…
Incentivizing Evidence-based Medicine
When treatment plans are guided by an image of the patient as a potentially litigious, hard to satisfy paying customer, with no policies to provide a counterweight and incentivize good…
Recommitting to Public Service Values in Troubled Times
It is no secret our politics are often divisive and lacking in civility. In this environment, it is easy for public service professionals to blame the challenges we face in…
The Leadership Quotient
What is effective leadership? Some people believe that being effective as a leader is knowing your team. Some people believe that being effective as a leader is being in control…
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