ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Take my retirement in 2014. Don’t get too excited by the title. No, I am not advocating for the mass retirement of men. Instead, I am making a case for retirees mentoring replacements before they retire. After 36 years within state and local government (and in many roles) I filed retirement documents about 90 days in advance of my final date.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). This last theory I found particularly intriguing – especially given my interest in mapping as a tool for strategy development. What might compass over map mean?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Is this a desirable trend?

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In a 2014 paper in Perspectives on Politics , Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page stated America’s government is demonstrably responsive to the “economic elite and organized business interests.” It is only a matter of time until it will become billionaire versus billionaire in a head-to-head match.

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