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The Public Manager archives from March 1997
New behaviors, new roles, and new attitudes.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... Leadership has become the "in" word of the 1990s. Books, articles, and seminars on leadership are flourishing. At the same time, the reinvention of government continues and calls for new, less hierarchical management styles are heard with...
Managing change - changing management: rethinking the roles of public executives.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... Since the inception of the National Performance Review in 1993, much has been made of the polling data showing widespread decline in public confidence in all levels of government. Of course, many will dispute the causes and the cures, but few...
Untapping human potential: NPR's goal for the 21st century. (National Performance Review)(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... In early January, President Clinton and Vice President Gore met with the new cabinet and gave them the "rules of the road" for reinvention in their second administration. Dubbed the "Blair House Papers," after the location of the cabinet...
Back to the beginning: the burden and reward of the senior executive.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... The federal government's managers and executives are hard working and often little appreciated, so it is important that they not be discouraged. The best antidote to weariness and the occasional public disparagement is to keep alive a sense of...
USDA enters the Information Age. (United States Dept. of Agriculture) (includes related article on modernizing the Dept. of Agriculture)(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... In 1862, President Lincoln established the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the People's Department, "...to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture...
The future isn't what it used to be. (development of public managers)(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... Editor's Note
With this issue's article by associate editor Ron Sanders, The Public Manager revitalizes its Developing Managers department. The ongoing series of pieces will deal with the critical leadership and management development issues...
Performance management strategies showing promise.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... A broad variety of outcome-oriented/results-driven performance management strategies are being implemented in many individual agencies and entire governments throughout the nation, with the goal of improving program performance, resource...
The "learning" in the learning organization.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... Series Editor's Note
This is the fourth in a series of articles based on work in 1996 for a consortium of 37 federal agencies by the National Academy of Public Administration's Center for Human Resources Management. The HRM Consortium 1997...
A continuing transition: quest for balance.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... Series Editor's Note
With Bob Brown's seminal contribution on "Virtual Retirement," this 1996-97 series on retirement management after public management careers concludes with these brief summary observations plus my own contribution....
Virtual retirement.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... When work becomes discretionary rather than mandatory, inherent pressures in a second career are less severe.
Michael Jordan's return to professional basketball did not prevent me from adopting an instructive metaphor, fashioned by a...
Information technology (IT) enters the inner sanctum.(25th Anniversary Issue: The Tradition of Excellence Continues)
March 22, 1997... A sound agency IT program requires endowment of a new chair in the councils of the agency's head.
Series Editor's Note
This is my final article as series editor. It explains new legislation and other tools executives can bring to bear in...
