In the iconic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her new friends Scarecrow and Tin Man brave Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Why take on the risk? All three are driven by a quest...

Problems cross boundaries and so must solutions. The most important challenge for performance networks that aim to deliver better results is designing the structure that coordinates across...

Book Review W. Astor Kirk, PhD, One Life: Three Professional Careers (Long Beach, California: Magic Valley Publishers, 2007) Managing in Turbulent Times stor Kirks book recounting his...

Iby Martin Stewart-Weeks t is instructive in these unpredictable times to consider the answer to a simple question: Is government part of the solution or part of the problem? For some, the...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, released its page-turner, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency, in December 2008. The report covers the...

T Careful listening to the presidents talk of change holds the key for public managers and their programs. his discussion invites interested parties to listen in new ways to the messages...

Consider how the world has changed in the last twenty-five to thirty years, since the work of the Grace Commission, the launching of the Reform 88 initiative in the Reagan administration,...

Last July, when government accountability was being discussed in several forums at the conference, few anticipated the events that have since unfolded and their effect on the national and...

Fifteen years ago this week, Congress passed the Government Performance and Results Act, a law whose sponsors hoped would help establish a government guided by goals and monitored by...

The Public Manager and the American Society for Public Administration hosted their first annual conference on government transformation in Baltimore, Maryland, July 2829, 2008. The...