Bridging the Skills Gap Part I

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Pat Galagan

Recent economic challenges have forced public- and private-sector organizations to execute their strategies with more precision than ever before and to do it with fewer resourcesespecially people. The elimination of large number... More »

A New Lease on Learning

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ASTD Staff

Gables Residential is a privately owned real estate investment trust that builds, develops, and manages multifamily communities and mixed-use developments in such U.S. urban markets as Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Boca Raton, San Diego, Austin, and Washington, D.C. A stron... More »

New Imperatives for Public Managers

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Michael Stahl

When people hear the term public servant, they think of presidents, governors, legislators, cabinet secretaries, agency directorsthe political officials featured on news broadcasts, on political talk shows, and in newspapers. Th... More »

Human Potential Untangled

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Kevin J. Sensenig

Three generations of management theory have defined how organizations develop human potential. First, under the functional management approach, development was aimed at getting people to follow the standard processes established for each function. The assumption was tha... More »

Invest in People and Win the Future

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Paul Flynn

"Our people are our most valuable asset." Raise your hand if you feel like you are your company's most valuable asset. Yeah, that's about what I thought. Yet you hear that statement all the time, right? It's not that it isn't true, it's justwell it's justwell, what is i... More »