• As the Boomers Ebb, What Will the Tide Bring In?
• BY: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   October 17, 2007
• If the public sector has lost its appeal to new generations, writes Feather O'Connor Houstoun, then surely its reinvention should be approached with an opportunistic mindset.

• Public Management and the Visible Hand
• BY: H. George Frederickson   |   October 10, 2007
• The application of market-like competition to the public sector has had mixed results, writes H. George Frederickson.

• Cultivating Organizational Curiosity
• BY: Babak Armajani   |   October 3, 2007
• Curiosity can be defined as a need, thirst, or desire for knowledge. It's also an attribute found in high performing organizations.

• Transforming Health Care So We Can Keep Our Promises
• BY: Peter Hutchinson   |   September 26, 2007
• Health care is literally eating our families out of house and home -- and our governments out of education, transportation and human services. Four key problems, writes Peter Hutchinson, make transformation necessary.

• Inviting the Public In
• BY: Frank Fairbanks   |   September 19, 2007
• What can we do to enhance the public's ability to understand what government is doing and why? Invite them into the budget process, writes Frank Fairbanks.

• The Impartial Public Servant
• BY: Bob Stone   |   September 12, 2007
• Impartial judgment is part of the deal for public servants. There's no room for bias. But, writes Bob Stone, many factors conspire to rob us of our chance at true impartiality.

• The Department of Labor's Strange Stretch of Innovation
• BY: John D. Donahue   |   September 5, 2007
• For a short time, it accounted for about 30 percent of federal Innovations winners. John D. Donahue explores this burst of inventiveness.

• Forming Relationships Before They're Needed
• BY: Russ Linden   |   August 29, 2007
• As one emergency management veteran puts it, "you don't want to start forming relationships when you're standing in the rubble."

• Beyond the GASB-GFOA Brawl
• BY: Robert D. Behn   |   August 22, 2007
• The case for standards in financial reporting is clear, writes Robert D. Behn. We need to know that government is using our tax dollars properly.

• Coming to Grips with Fiscal Realities
• BY: Paul L. Posner   |   August 15, 2007
• Financial pressures demand transformation but transformative government demands broad authority -- something federal policies make difficult.

• Managing Infrastructure Investment
• BY: Stephen Goldsmith   |   August 8, 2007
• Infrastructure repair and maintenance typically do not make headlines, which makes the job of seeking investment extremely difficult. Fortunately, there are some promising approaches.

• Innovation Clues from Cleveland
• BY: Jerry Mechling   |   August 1, 2007
• Cleveland is unique in its approach to broadband, its emphasis on entrepreneurial innovation and its focus on the region rather than on the city, the state or the nation, writes Jerry Mechling.

• Mixing Cocktails for School Reform
• BY: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   July 25, 2007
• It takes all kinds and types of approaches to close the achievement gap, writes Feather O'Connor Houstoun.

• Count Your Blessings? Sure, But Count Your Problems Too
• BY: Shelley Metzenbaum   |   July 18, 2007
• Government agencies that embrace problems rather than avoid them turn out to be highly effective, writes Shelley Metzenbaum.

• Why the Management of Innovation May Be an Oxymoron
• BY: H. George Frederickson   |   July 11, 2007
• Innovations are not organizational creations, writes H. George Frederickson, although they may be helped or hindered by organizations.

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