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Leadership Dilemmas: The Seduction of Correctly Solving the Wrong Problem
There was a university study conducted a few years ago on mice, rats, and hamsters. The study was intended, of course, to see if we could learn something that we…
Social Vulnerability and Social Justice: Government’s Role in a More Equitable Society
Social vulnerability is a pre-existing condition that affects a society’s ability to prepare for and recover from a disruptive event. Social vulnerability is applied primarily to natural hazards and disasters…
A Life of Social Justice Promotion Through Public Service
How can a community provide public service in an economic, efficient and effective manner AND promote equity or social justice? There are no easy institutional or organizational answers to this…
Promoting Social Equity by Building Transparency into State Budgeting Processes
State budgets are extremely complex and important social equity issues are present in many budgets. Probably the largest and best known social equity issue concerns state payments to local school…
The 36th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference Issues Call for Proposals
The Section on Public Administration Education (SPAE) is hosting the 36th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference (TPAC) on June 3-5, 2013, in San Francisco’s Japantown. Conference site co-hosts are…
Strengthening Accountability and Public Confidence with Transparency Websites
According to Transparency International, an international anti-corruption organization headquartered in Berlin, the public sectors of most of the world’s countries are still plagued by high levels of perceived corruption. Based…
Why Does Business Not Trust IT? (2)
Who is at fault? In all honesty it is the mostly the business or buyer. Of course it is an IT perspective. What did you think I was going to…
Training and Development in the Great Recession
Succession planning is often intertwined with the quest to improve personnel. Many organizations report an increasing turnover rate as the Baby Boomer generation retires. This will create a vacuum in…
Innovation and What It Means
I consider innovation to be any technology including Information Technology systems that can be implemented to save time, create efficiency and return a positive return on investment (ROI) to the…
The Current State of Defense Contracting
The contract management process continues to be an increasingly important function in the federal government, and specifically in the Department of Defense (DoD). The DoD, which is the federal government’s…
Women in Combat: How Law Enforcement Gender Integration Strategies May Inform U.S. Military Leaders
On January 24, 2013, the U.S. Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff signed an order rescinding a long standing barrier blocking military women from assignment…
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