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Keeping Your Lens Clean Amidst Ethical Challenges

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Patrick S. Malone

From the restaurant table to the agency boardroom, ethical challenges often force us to make tough decisions. Keeping your ethical lens clean is the first step in resolving lifes dilemmas. Ethical challenges pervade our daily lives. It may be as simple as ... More »

You Make the Call: Tips for Making Public Decisions

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Mary Eleanor Wickersham

Public managers face challenges in decision making not experienced by managers in the private sector. are there easier ways to make decisions? remember, not making a decision is a decision in itself. Well see, is the parents mantra. Too often, it is also t... More »

Food for Thought: Is a French Fry a Vegetable?

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Tammy Esteves

The cost of healthy foods and the lack of physical activity among children and teenagers are fueling the obesity epidemic. Bottom line? Too many people cannot afford to eat healthy. Well, the truth is they cant afford not to eat healthy, but eating healthy... More »