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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Discover how Amazon Web Services (AWS) empowers organizations across the public sector in the AWS Public Sector Leadership Session, on Tuesday November 29, from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM. 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.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

This concept while widely dismissed by today’s scholars of public administration (Campbell and Peters, 1998; Levy, 2009) as if a true unadulterated distinction could honestly, actually, occur is commonly a constant and growing public debate particularly in developing countries. Overeem, Patrick (2012). Campbell, C., & Peters, B.

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

Partnership for Public Service

During this period, presidents “should feature a non-partisan, managerial approach that consciously forms teams built to emphasize not just policy expertise, but effective leadership,” Liddell said. 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

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. Sometimes I tell the story of the first project I did at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a report on the presence of a potential carcinogen in alcoholic beverages. But to dig deeper for the right lesson.

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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

Naturally, during the recession, fewer people were traveling to save money, so ONT experienced a 2.31% monthly decline from December 2007 to June 2009. Between 2012 and the acquisition, John Wayne rose to become dominant in international flights compared to ONT, Long Beach, and Bob Hope. of revenues.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).