Book abstract: In Ports in a Storm, a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes…
Book abstract: Recent events around the world, especially in the financial sector and with respect to government performance, have severely…
Is the Colombia prostitution scandal rocking the Secret Service an isolated incident? Or is it evidence of a debauched organizational…
I recently read a fascinating article in the Academy of Management Journal with the slightly daunting title “Implicit Voice Theories: Taken…
The 14 months since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow have not been kind to those who yearn for a free Egypt. A military junta rules, Islamists…
Outsiders must be a little mystified as to why the Obama administration’s nomination of Jim Young Kim to lead the World Bank has kicked up…
Before the Internet age, when my car had some minor problem, I would choose a car shop at random and walk out with a whopping bill for some…
I have long argued that the most underused tool in the government manager’s arsenal is appealing to what scholars call the public service…
“Becoming a leader” has become a mantra. The explosive growth of the “leadership industry” is based on the belief that leading is a path to…
The frenzy of indignation surrounding President Obama’s open-mike chat with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has yet to subside, as his…