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The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
It has been a difficult year to be a career federal employee. I want to let current federal employees know this has happened before. More importantly, I want to stress…
The United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals and the Building of a Good Society: A Modest Proposal for the Public Administration Education and Training Community
When the United Nations (UN) announced in 2000 a 15-year effort to implement eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it began what arguably was the most significant worldwide effort to build…
Social Justice
At its core, social justice is about ensuring those in the minority are represented within a system which has and continues to fail them. There are many different lines of…
Cruel and Unusual
I understand the need for criminal justice. It would be naïve to believe there are not individuals who pose a threat to society. The Quakers got nearly everything wrong, except…
Three Ways to Support Continuous Employee Growth and Development
People want real-time feedback and encouragement, and they want opportunities to learn and develop on an ongoing basis. Research confirms organizations that provide these opportunities and more to employees can…
What’s Your Story?
Changing the culture of a regulatory agency isn’t easy, especially when staff morale is low. Yet, it’s not impossible. Our leadership team and staff worked hard through the recession, layoffs,…
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…
The Value of Federal Government Data in Transforming Government Agencies
The U.S. federal government is probably one of the biggest (if not the biggest) producers of data. Every day, thousands of federal workers collect, create, analyze and distribute massive amounts…
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…
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…
Hitting the Bullseye to Improve Employee Engagement
By one estimate, there are about 90,000 public-sector jurisdictions and organizations in the U.S. alone. Not sure who has counted these organizations but clearly there are a lot of them.…
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