ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Thank goodness law and policy guides our institutional tradition in transitioning leadership. Be aware and thankful that our elections do not result in you being run out-of-town or jailed, as seen in Turkey and other nations undergoing leadership change. Many also will experience change based on state and local elections.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As public management scholars, we invest a lot of energy in doing research on public organizations, and most of us need answers to a very simple question: Why? Why should we use so much time to do public management research? How can public management research then actually contribute to solve real world problems?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

I have been very impressed with the leadership of Don Moynihan, from whom I often receive official emails or documents at 1:00 in the morning. Examples of this “snowball effect” include research on collaboration and public service motivation. We will be scanning the globe for such leadership as PMRA grows. [

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

Work with pretty much any public sector leadership team after a flood or fire or similar natural cataclysm and the talk will be all admiration and yearning for the kind of instinctive collaboration that suddenly breaks out, at least so long as the emergency lasts. We want it but can’t ever seem to really deliver it.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Leadership and Motivation. Public administration scholarship has offered increasingly persuasive evidence that a model of transformational leadership fits with a public setting. Trump’s early appointments offer limited hope that such a model of leadership will be a staple of his administration.

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