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Armed With Psychology:Six Worker Personalities

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Gale S. Pollack

The best managers learn the personalities of their teams and respond to their needs. A major general has seen Process Communication lead to accomplishing missions and properly distributing work. For years, my colleagues and I have said I will never do... More »

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 »

Change Is in the Wind for HR Management

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Stephen Benowitz

Consider the old adage, What goes around, comes around. Often, this refers to political appointees who return to government when their party is elected. The other interpretation is that appointees bring back policies that were d... More »

Managing in the Black: Understanding Structure, Culture, and Craft

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Sharon Caudle

Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach provides a surprisingly fresh approach for introductory public management graduate-level courses. In the books preface, the authors make clear why they wrote this book for graduate... More »

Trust: The Critical Factor in Leadership

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TPM Staff

The newspapers are riddled with stories of deceit and deception from leaders in both the commercial and government sectors. Leaders everywhere face the challenge of disenfranchised and ... More »