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New Imperatives for Public Managers
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
When people hear the term public servant, they think of presidents, governors, legislators, cabinet secretaries, agency directorsthe political officials featured on news broadcasts, on...
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New Orleans: The Rising Sun?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) created the Katrina Task Force (KTF) shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Each year, at ASPAs annual...
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From Flower to Garden: Katrina Electricity and Emergency Management
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Hurricane Katrina taught federal, state, and local public managers extensive lessons about the criticality of electricity reliability in a disaster. In the report, The Federal Response to...
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The Role of GIS in Emergency Management
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The primary government agency for disaster response in the State of Hawaii is the Oahu Civil Defense Agency (OCDA), a department in the City and County of Honolulu. The Mayor acts as the...
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Civil-Military Relations in Emergency Management
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Both U.S. civil defense of the past and homeland security of the present demonstrate that disaster policy has always had a degree of national security and military penetration. However, few...
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The Ethical Pothole: Tolerable Corruption?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The discussion at the 2009 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) panel on professional ethics took an odd turn. During an exchange about endemic corruption in a particular...
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The Challenges of Donation Management
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
One of the lasting images of Hurricane Katrina is the mass of people outside the Superdome asking for water from National Guard troops who had none to give. People all over the world saw a...
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Managing the Multi-Sector Workforce Through Public Management Collaboration
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Over the past 12 months, the federal government has experienced a significant expansion. Stimulus funding is now funneling to new and augmented programs. The government has assumed an...
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Innovating the Future A Management Agenda for the President: What Is Happening, Why, and So What?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
In mid-2007, the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) at Cisco Systems began an effort to contribute to the new administrations management initiativesinitiatives designed to better...
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Managing in the Black: Understanding Structure, Culture, and Craft
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach provides a surprisingly fresh approach for introductory public management graduate-level courses. In the books preface, the authors make...
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Image of Public Service: Working Together for America
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Coalition for Effective Change (CEC), which is made up of 34 organizations with a combined membership of more than 600,000, celebrated its 15th anniversary on June 22, 2009. The CEC...
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GIS: Wonder Tool for Collaboration and Sustainability
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
On a recent episode of the hit TV show 24, the lead character and shows hero, Jack Bauer, used geographical information systems (GIS) to thwart a trap designed to kill FBI agents. He took a...
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Class and Crisis: Socioeconomic Status and the Ethics of Individual Experience
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Weve all heard the arguments post-Katrina and perhaps weve made the remarks ourselves: Why cant these people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? They just sit and wait for...
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The Rise of Gov 2.0 From GovLoop to the White House
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
A revolution is happening in government as the result of a new generation of government employees, the rise of Web 2.0 technologies, and the Obama Administrations focus on transparency,...
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Quattro Punti: Four Steps to Budgeting and Performance ManagementPart II
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Budgeting and performance management (B&PM) is a tool for anyone interested in improving government agency performance. Performing effectively is about providing essential services to...
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Culture of Bureacracy: Managing Change in the Federal GovernmentPart II
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Part I of this series contrasted differences in private and public sector management and established some baseline assumptions regarding internal federal administrative operations. Part II...
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Aligning Government Performance and Community Outcome Measurement
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Now, more than ever, strategies for measuring and reporting public sector results are in high demand. Whether working with limited resources or conditions in which the public and...
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Improved Trust Fosters Improved Results
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
On many occasions, I have referred to communication as the lubricant that enables organizations to function smoothly. However, trust in organizations is even more fundamental. Without trust...
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Advanced Collaboration Techniques for More Effective Management
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Advanced 3D collaboration technologies are being used by government agencies to enhance training, operations center management, and research and development. These new solutions deliver...
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Strategic Public Sector Learning and Development
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
From fighting terrorism abroad to managing the economic recovery here at home, the U.S. government has taken on more new roles and responsibilities in recent years than ever before in its...
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