Warren Master

Winter 2012 - The Public Manager

This book's editors and more than 30 contributors have done our community of public managers a great service by framing the issue of cultural competency and harnessing good governance tools and techniques more fully than has been achieved to date. As a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey during the mid-1960s, a trained cultural anthropologist, community organizer, and long-time career federal program manager and executive, I confess to a clear bias on the topic of this book.

Gaining Cultural Competency to Advance Public Service

Fall 2012 - The Public Manager

The role of the nonacquisition manager is critical to proper stewardship and oversight and to achievement of strategic outcomes. I learned this during the scrub-down of many misbegotten federal acquisitions while in government and as a government contractor. With this in mind, I have culled, from the recently updated How to Write a Statement of Work (SOW) and its companion reference tool, Federal Statements of Work: A Practical Guide, those best practice contributions that procurement counterparts expect from the designated official or technical representative.

What Non acquisition Managers Need to Know About Procurement

Summer 2012 - The Public Manager

The summer 2012 issue kicks off with a mini-forum on inter-institutional collaboration overseas. With an emphasis on governance solutions for interdependent times, Sarah Ringler reports on what she has observed on efforts to promote minority rights in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina; David Simpson shares his thoughts on how the global community is continually strengthened through exchange programs; and Oblayon B. Nyemah and Donnell Scott provide first-hand reporting on successful governance reform in Liberia. Closer to home, Geoffrey Abbott explores the challenges posed by transferring best practices across organizational boundaries.