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Status Quo and Loss of Direction
Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister and one of the greatest wartime leaders of modern history, was voted out of office in July 1945, just two months following the…
Social Justice in Southside Chicago
American history is fraught with thousands of examples of community groups that brought national attention to their causes and community needs. These groups force us, as public and nonprofit managers,…
Navigating Religion and Public Service with an Increasingly Diverse Workforce
It is rare for the discipline of public administration to acknowledge religious inclinations as a public service motivation. This lack of attention or appreciation does not negate the very real…
Dreamers, DACA and the Fourteenth Amendment
While it’s stated there are over 800,000 DACA recipients in this country currently, Rhode Island’s numbers hover somewhere around 1,200. Under the Trump Administration, only 250 qualify for DACA renewal.…
What’s Next for Food Security?
Food security is a major concern of governmental, nongovernmental and international organizations for moral, health, economic and sometimes for national security reasons. History has demonstrated that food insecurity does not…
World Cup Soccer and Policymaking: Strategies for Success
Winning the World Cup, or merely qualifying, as the United States failed to do for this summer’s competition, requires tactics and principles that can provide lessons for successful policymaking and…
Employee Valuation: The “A-ha” Moment!
Are Administrators not investing in people because of low output (read: productivity and widgets), or, as Administrators, have we underinvested in our greatest commodity: People? We must have an “A-ha”…
The Tragedy of Public Management
Public managers must be guardians of the public trust who know how to help build a Good Society. Sustainability — which stresses justice across the interdependent domains of the economy,…
Where are Government’s Great Places to Work?
The train has left the station. In every other sector there is a focus on the policies and practices which make organizations “great places to work.” Government’s workforce problems—the aging…
Leadership Lessons We Can Learn from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Life of Service
King finished the speech outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand. One of his aides who went to King's suite that night saw words crossed out…
Pitching Politics
People pay taxes to their local state and federal government, as required by law, without consideration of specific services government provides. In the private sector, people choose to pay for…
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