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Former White House officials highlight the value of early planning for presidential transitions

Partnership for Public Service

Long-term planning is essential for a potential new administration to be ready to govern from the first day in office and carry out its agenda in an effective and efficient manner. The book includes 30 declassified transition memos about Bush administration policies from 2008 and 2009 and made public for the first time.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012. Fraser is a native New Yorker with over 17 years of experience across government and the private sector.

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see: -- " How Sonoma County theaters are trying to survive in a post-COVID world ," Santa Rosa Press Democrat -- " New Pike Place Market venue aims to rekindle Seattle’s arts scene ," Crosscut -- " Seattle arts events are back, but audiences are hesitant ," Crosscut -- " What Does It Take to Run a Museum?

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Ask just about anyone to name a few people they consider leaders and most likely you net an elected government official on that list. He sought to investigate organization and the methods governments use to successfully accomplish its tasks with the most efficiency at the least possible cost.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0 Fertility rates are important because governments rely “on the next generation to finance the safety net and provide the caregivers, inventors and public servants of the future” (Miller). Overall, 22% of the selected shocks are from 2009. births per 1,000 women.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. 2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Anomie and shortage of disaster governance. Haynes 2012. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media.