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Having mused over this journal’s fall 2010 forum (presently in layout) on lessons learned from Katrina and the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – it’s hard not to get sick over government’s failure to see in advance...

by Mick Mortlock Millions of people live down river from dams that have high potential for failure. In the last year many of those dams collapsed and just last week, the Delhi Dam in Iowa failed, destroying 900 homes. Every year, neighborhoods, and schools...

by Irene Connelly Training managers at the National Park Service designed a program that not only met the agency’s succession requirements, but also implemented a major change in park management culture. You are part of an organization that is almost...

Imagination: the Door to Outstanding Innovation By Mick Mortlock I’ve audited the US government twice to see whether they’ve taken the “failure of imagination” warning from the 9-11 Commission seriously. They haven’t, and...

by Russ Linden Are your agency leaders talking about collaboration now more than five or six years ago? Are you seeing considerably more collaboration in your agency today? When I pose these questions to managers, 80 to 90 percent answer “yes”...

My last post on this blog highlighted two recent public sector training efforts that demonstrated strategic alignment with priority agency outcomes – both in the US Department of Defense ( http://community.thepublicmanager.org/cs/blogs/agile_bureaucracy...

Strategic Workplace Learning in the Public Sector A little less than two years ago on this blog, I entered a curmudgeonly post on “The Non-Strategic State of Workplace Learning” (See Agile Bureaucracy, June 16, 2008 - http://community.thepublicmanager...

Introduction: What Is Happening, Why, and So What? Alan P. Balutis In mid-2007, the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) began an effort to contribute to the new administration’s management initiatives, which are designed to better implement...

by Bill Damaré The Department of Defense and private sector have reaped the benefits of standardizing project management tools and techniques for many years. Improvements in the way projects are estimated, scheduled, monitored, and completed have...

What are the drivers of trust in government? What specifically do we expect of public sector officials? And how can we go about improving overall trust? As I reflect on my own musings, blogs and other public utterances on these questions, along with what...

When people hear the term “public servant,” they think of presidents, governors, legislators, cabinet secretaries, agency directors—the political officials featured on news broadcasts, on political talk shows, and in newspapers. These...

As an exchange student from Kyrgyzstan, I've been lucky to experience a school system in the United States that opened my eyes to new possibilities - as well as appreciate what I've had back at home from kindergarten through high school. Having...

One of the most difficult problems for local governance is to determine institutional arrangements and boundaries for local goods and services that are preferred by citizens in different geographical areas or that possess different production characteristics...

In an increasingly multisector workforce environment, public managers can infuse results expectations into performance documents to achieve desired outcomes and ensure accountability. by Joe Alexander and Phil Kangas Citizen demands on federal, state...

Several weeks ago I had the privilege of being one of 57 high school students who participated in a 5-day conference at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The event - Better Understanding for a Better World - was organized by Imam Mohamad Bashar Arafat...