Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 14, 2025

This note picks up a recent example of that work which struck me as well timed for similar reform instincts and programs of work in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Theres plenty of work done over many years in different contexts about paradigms what they are, what they do and how they change.

Public Sector 59

Public Sector Public Works Public Administration Engagement 59

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes.

Community Development 52

Community Development Parks And Recreation Development Management 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

In other words, we either spruik the benefits of the neo-liberal, new public management framework of the past 40 years or advocate and even in some cases warmly predict the return of “socialism” or “big” government. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary?

Public Works 52

Public Works Government Public Sector Leadership 52

Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

For example, a public manager can use interfund transfers to move money from the General Fund, the primary fund used for government activity, to a Capital Project Fund to help pay for the construction of a new government administrative building.

Management 40

Management Financial Management Budgeting Public Administration 40