• What Transformational Leaders Do
• BY: Babak Armajani   |   June 27, 2007
• A practical recipe for how a leader translates his or her action into accomplishments.

• Improving the Government Brand
• BY: William D. Eggers   |   June 20, 2007
• The training grounds for our future public servants, William Eggers writes, are producing lots of future consultants, lobbyists and nonprofit executives.
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• Doing the Community's Will
• BY: Frank Fairbanks   |   June 13, 2007
• When city resources are tight, Frank Fairbanks writes, sometimes all you need is community participation to make progress.

• Ethics for Bosses
• BY: Bob Stone   |   June 6, 2007
• Bosses get special privileges. As a result, writes Bob Stone, they need a simple set of ethics for dealing with these perks.
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• The End of the End of Government
• BY: John D. Donahue   |   May 30, 2007
• As services are increasingly outsourced to non-profits, John D. Donahue writes, government's role becomes even more important.

• A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
• BY: Russ Linden   |   May 23, 2007
• With a little planning and a lot of commitment, writes Russ Linden, a crisis can produce significant changes in the status quo.

• The Tyranny of the Template
• BY: Robert D. Behn   |   May 16, 2007
• Electronic databases make some things easier. At the same time, writes Robert Behn, they have made some things impossible.

• Legislatures and Good Management: an Oxymoron Revisited
• BY: Paul L. Posner   |   May 9, 2007
• Management reforms often seem to flounder on the shoals of legislative indifference and hostility.

• Privatization: Transformation or Efficient Obsolescence?
• BY: Stephen Goldsmith   |   May 2, 2007
• Managers face two major challenges: how to protect their constituent's values and, of course, how to succeed in their policy goals.

• Governing By Network: What about Accountability?
• BY: Stephen Goldsmith   |   April 25, 2007
• The executive branch has a huge responsibility to assure that third-party providers are held accountable.

• Smart Growth and the Herding of Cats
• BY: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   April 18, 2007
• Without strong executive leadership and teamwork, cross-agency acceptance of a smart growth agenda is a long shot.

• Take the Time to Ask the Time
• BY: Shelley Metzenbaum   |   April 11, 2007
• By "time stamping" data, government managers can use that data to operate their programs more effectively and efficiently.

• The Future of IT-Enabled Change: Are You Ready?
• BY: Jerry Mechling   |   April 4, 2007
• Information technology is critical for innovation, but the IT-driven innovation of the future will be much more difficult than anything we've done so far.

• Public Management and the End of Geography
• BY: H. George Frederickson   |   March 26, 2007
• There is a rapidly declining relationship between public management and jurisdiction. The fix is collaboration.

• Looking Out for Tomorrow's Public Servants
• BY: Robert J. O'Neill Jr.   |   March 21, 2007
• Identifying creative approaches is imperative to attract and develop a cadre of skilled, committed, and trained individuals to serve in state and local government.

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