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The Ethics of Receiving Gifts in Public Service: What Does the Science Say?
Satisfying the legal obligation to disclose whatever gift or other nice gesture they received becomes the focus of their energy, not whatever obligations they might have above and beyond the…
Questions From the Edge: The End of the American Rescue Plan Act Is Not Far Off. Is Your Local Government Ready?
For local governments fast approaching the ARPA fiscal cliff, the time is now to ask some tough questions and take steps to bring their budgets into structural balance.…
Organizational Dissent: What Is a Leader To Do?
What is a leader to do? Let’s have a rational dialogue, remove the obstacles and the personal bias, create a participatory environment and be a sponsor for improvement. This is…
House of Cards: Microwave Success
Do not half-do anything. Even if the task is menial or tedious, execute it with excellence. You must understand that how you do anything is how you do everything. Be…
Memorial Day, More Important Today
Let us simply remember the unselfish sacrifice of those soldiers, sailors, aviators, marines and members of the Coast Guard who throughout our history have given so much to ensure our…
Yes, We’re Open
The long term side effects of this pandemic are sure to be felt and experienced for years ahead and so we must get ahead of that curve and acknowledge the…
Public Administration and Institutions That Commit Child Abuse or Neglect: Part 2 – If Corporations Are “People” Can We Deter Them From Evil?
What I suggest is that public administration needs to push for harsh criminal penalties for corporate malfeasance and make examples of such malfeasance to amplify the deterrence effect. …
How do Public Administrators Learn to Lean Bureaucracy?
In the spirit of continuous improvement, I encourage all trainers, professors and researchers to connect and contribute to the diffusion of knowledge in the essential field of Lean management and…
Employee Ownership in the Public Sector
If public-sector leaders—the owners—do not provide some means for their employees to feel like they have a meaningful role in defining excellence, in planning their own work, in crafting an…
Still Dreaming… Still Teaching…
We teachers are all different from one another. But we all love the autonomy of our classrooms—it’s our garden—and we try every day to bloom where we are planted.…
Lose the Yeast and Stop the Rise in Health Care Costs
Just as the impossibility of removing yeast from bread dough, there is little possibility of fixing the broken health care cost system without an unaffiliated public administration agency that can…
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