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Organizational Change: How Incrementalism Can Save Your Career
If courses in organizational theory have taught us anything, it’s that nearly everyone finds change difficult. This is no more relevant than in the workplace. Whether you have just stepped…
SECoPA: A Look Back…and Ahead
The year 1962 marked the beginning of a new era for the South. Baker versus Carr, a landmark Supreme Court case, determined that malappropriated state legislatures were unconstitutional. The Baker…
Civics Lost—No Apparent Priority in Education
A majority of students don’t know, or appear to care, about their own country’s system of governance. When tested, high school and college graduates alike do very poorly in answering…
Can Public Higher Education Bring Hope to South Side Chicago?
As I drove my family into a Chicago suburb to visit my cousin and his family, the thought of South Side Chicago occupied my mind based on William Lee’s article…
Overcoming Barriers to Improving Employee Engagement
Decades of research on engagement has shown that improving engagement delivers results that matter to organizations in both the public and private sectors. These results include financial returns, productivity, innovation,…
Fixing What’s Broken: Managing State & Local Infrastructure Projects
Engaging in a conversation about fixing what is wrong with managing state or local infrastructure projects could be potentially dangerous for your career, depending on where you are sitting at…
Edge Counties in Expanding Metropolitan Regions
The previous article in this series introduced the concept of rapid-growth edge counties located at or near the periphery of expanding metropolitan regions. This second installment is focused on their…
Learning from Military Leadership
To be a leader is to influence others. Public leadership theory focuses on how to inspire people to share a vision of transformational change and act collaboratively toward its realization.…
We’ve Been Here Before
Social equality in public administration. We have been here before. What is different this time are the multifaceted aspects the current problem presents. However, that should not preclude public administration…
What’s Next America?
The title of my commentary this month is the same question that I facetiously ended my last commentary contribution. Now, I am writing after the deadly shootings in both Orlando,…
PokéGovernment
Games like “Pokémon Go” have merged the real world with the virtual world. While these games require people to get physical exercise, they have also created a variety of troubles…