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Boosting Emotional Intelligence-A Key to Improved Local Government Working Relationships

Public Administration Associates

Robert Wright in an influential article in WIRED Magazine (10/8/2017) entitled “How Mindfulness Meditation Can Save America”, called this mindfulness as something we desperately need in our society and workplaces and “will make us less inclined to embrace and hand on to that “enemy” vide when it surfaces”.

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What @sog_ced is reading online: November 2023

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.

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Where Will You Be on Q Day?

GovLoop

DigiCert has been helping customers prepare for Q Day since 2017, implementing its solutions for multiple use cases. This article appeared in our guide, “ Quantum Computing 101: Getting Ready for Tomorrow’s Tech.” It can replace old algorithms with quantum-resistant ones and configure them without extensive manual intervention.

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

It was a great honor to receive the Beryl Radin Award at the 2017 PMRC conference at American University in June for our article entitled, “ Clerks or Kings? In this blog post, we will highlight the article’s main conclusions, as well as our indebtedness to a wonderful mentor and scholar who enabled this project.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017. This article appeared in our guide, “ A New Cyber Game Plan Takes Shape.” Another persistent problem: Agencies aren’t applying patches to known vulnerabilities.

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23 March 2017 | Making a Difference in the Real World through Public Affairs Research, By Stephanie Moulton

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

After the discussion, I went back to my office and brushed off Heather Hill’s 2003 JPART article on implementation resources, “ Understanding Implementation: Street?Level Jill’s research is making a difference in the real world, not only through her academic publications, but through the creation of implementation resources.

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The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This comes up because of the Chicago Sun-Times article, " City’s test of additional dwelling units finds most takers in gentrified wards." From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin?

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