At a recent gathering of about 40 public management academics and practitioners, the overwhelming message was that the push for a results-…
In 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk organized a large, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment to determine whether his vaccine was…
Since September 2003, the Retirement Research Center at the National
Bureau of Economic Research has conducted a coordinated series of…
It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin…
My older daughter, who is working in Australia, recently visited Shanghai for the first time. After her arrival, she e-mailed my wife and…
An upcoming report from Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership once again confirms that most Americans long for leaders…
The great social psychologist Kurt Lewin once said, “There’s nothing so practical as a good theory.” I would add to this aphorism another…
PerformanceStat is not a system,
or a model. It is a leadership
strategy. For to achieve the strategy’s
potential to produce real
results…