On June 12, 2013 it was revealed that news agency Thompson-Reuters has been giving a small and elite group of stock market traders access to the highly-influential “Consumer Sentiment Index” (CSI) through high-speed data connection two full seconds before releasing the report to its other paying customers at 9:55 a.m., and before it publicly releases … Continue reading
As a result of technology and changing consumer behaviors, entirely new avenues for cultivating leadership have sprung up that have the possibility to hone leadership skills for a new generation of public policy makers. In the past two decades, one of the major shifts in how the Western World recreates has been away from passive … Continue reading
What is ‘good’ theory? The purpose of a good theory is to provide a conceptual framework for viewing and understanding phenomena. From this perspective a theory is either useful or not useful. A theory helps guide and focus attention, identify and define important variables, and postulate the relationships among them. A good theory is not just … Continue reading
Russell L. Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin. Beating the System: Using Creativity to Outsmart Bureaucracies. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2005, 144 pages, $14.95 softcover, ISBN: 978-1-57675-330-9. Charles T. Goodsell. The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic. Washington, DC: CQ Press/Sage, 2004, 208 pages, $33.81 softcover, ISBN: 978-1-56802-907-8. Good versus evil is a dichotomy present in religion, … Continue reading
Traditional Management Theory Thrust Forward Taylor’s The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) was based on measurements of work processes and outcomes. The application of his principles would lead managers and workers to the best conditions under which to create and nurture business. The concepts were adapted to fit government and were used to test, promote, … Continue reading
This was a barn-burner. I haven’t checked out this many books from an actual library since like 2001. In a mini-emergency, I had to concoct a diagram/graphic IN Microsoft Word so those will have to be dropped in here later as they didn’t exactly translate-don’t judge me! It’s not perfect, but it’s mine. I … Continue reading
Introduction As is evident particularly after an election cycle where messaging inundates every American household, politicians use what may seem to be a foreign language in the delivery of messaging regarding party politics and public policy to the masses. Using models in public policy one can determine how a political party might trend toward regarding … Continue reading
Part of an overall discussion via Prezi
Public Policy Blog 