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The Bureaucrat as Democracys Safety Valve
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Why do so many middle-class people bristle at policies from which they would seem to benefit? And why, at the voting booth, do they seem to vote against their economic self-interest?...
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Dont Overlook Frontline Supervisors
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
For the past decade or so, new technology and systems have been prominent in performance improvement initiatives. Scorecards and performance measurement have been promoted as an answer for...
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Implementing the Four-Day Workweek
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Government organizations are in a perpetual state of change. A key element to the introduction of change, as well as its eventual success or failure, is the human resource manager. Author...
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Shared Services and the Cloud: Seize the Opportunity
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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The federal government has been gradually adopting shared service business models for administrative services for nearly 30 years. Today, the buzz is all about the cloud and its potential...
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Media Relations and Effective Evacuations of Gulf Coast Communities
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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Local emergency management organizations (LEMOs) provide a wide variety of services to their communitiesmany of which are relatively unknown to the people they serve. The unheralded nature...
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Whos Afraid of Central Park? Modeling Collaborative Governance
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
New Yorks Central Park hit bottom in the late 1970s. Graffiti marred nearly every man-made surface. Litter blew across desiccated lawns. The city government, burdened by burgeoning costs...
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Declaring Catastrophies: Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Both Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in 2010 impelled Americans to demand that the president take extraordinary and vigorous actions. Both disasters also...
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Achieving Community Preparedness Post-Katrina
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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Improving disaster response capabilities within this country requires better coordination not only within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but also across the federal...
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Reforming Mitigation Programs: A New Orleans Case Analysis
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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The well-documented increasing toll of disasters in terms of life and property losses should trigger major reform of the nations hazard mitigation policy and programs. A potential strategy...
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The Ethinomics of a Leaking Louisiana
Saturday, July 3, 2010
On par with football, Laissez Les Bon Temps, Roulez, and crawfish, one of the defining characteristics and great motivators in Louisiana is getting something over on someone. Variously...
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Recovery or Resilience Along the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast?
Saturday, July 3, 2010
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina blew ashore, and 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast were devastated, including levee destruction in New Orleans that left standing water in 80 percent...
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Service-Learning Through Colleges and Universities, Part II
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Service-learning has the potential to dramatically change the quality of our communities by harnessing the power of students, faculty, and community leaders in a broad range of community...
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Introduction to the Forum: Overview of Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reforms
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Residents of New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast have been trying to adjust to their new normal in the five years since Hurricane Katrina and the Great Flood in New Orleans,...
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The Obama Budget Challenge
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Every new administration comes into office with a fresh set of priorities, innovative ideas, and an agenda for accomplishing its version of change for the betterment of the American people....
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Enhancing the Knowledge Management Capabilities of Federal Agencies
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Institutional knowledge is the shared and applied knowledge of procedures, rules, traditions, values, history, and performances that exist among members of an organization. Knowledge...
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