Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Purpose, crisis and new leadership The starting point, as always with the instinct for systemic reform, is purpose born of crisis: When Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine’s president in 2019, he promised to modernise a state that until then had been a byword for bureaucracy and corruption. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014.

Public Sector 59

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

Involve your stakeholders from teams such as leadership, accounting, and human resources to stay on top of any requirements you need to satisfy. She is the author of Impact & Excellence: Data-Driven Strategies for Aligning Mission, Culture, and Performance in Nonprofit and Government Organizations (Jossey Bass, 2014).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). Washington Post , July 13, 2003. You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Like F&F, FHLB leadership teams are motivated to maximize profits. 11] This effort may or may not have been particularly successful – there is little evidence one way or the other, but it is, at minimum, revealing of the mindset of FHLB leadership. [12]

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

(And How You Can, Too! ) , Governing Books, 2016 John Pickering, Gerald Brokaw, and Anton Gardner, Building High-Performance Local Governments: Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels , Greenleaf Book, 2014 Kaifeng Yang and Marc Holzer, The Performance-Trust Link: Implications for Performance Measurement , Public Administration Review, January/February (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

This one is from February 2014. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach. Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. Most of these drafts I delete, but this reads well and is worth publishing, even if it is 11 years late.

Urban Planning 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Public Realm as an Interconnected system, Slide from presentation, "Leadership and the Role of Parks and Recreation in the New Economy," David Barth and Carlos Perez, AECOM. gentrification crisis?

Transportation 52

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Performance Leadership: 11 Better Practices That Can Ratchet Up Performance. Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government. Managing Performance: Robert Behn (2014). The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results (Brookings Institution, Washington, DC). Stanford University Press.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 15, 2022

For example, when the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram abducted more than 200 school girls in Nigeria in 2014, the U.S. American leadership was hindered during that crucial period for building regional cooperation and a strong response to Russia’s aggression.??.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The prior risk-based adjustment to the GSEs’ G-fees had been set about a decade ago based on historic loss statistics at that time, with some revisions implemented in 2014. The result would be a skewed large, high-risk loan book with inadequate revenue to absorb that risk, something very undesirable to regulators.

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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. These are not radical or even new ideas.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

However, according to the AIA, now 50% of students in architecture programs are women, and the organization is now sponsoring an annual Women's Leadership Summit, which this year is in June in Miami. The landscape architecture field has plenty of women practitioners. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.

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