Jim McLaughlin's Blog

What’s the key to managing and engaging literally a city of employees? 2012 Baldrige Award recipient and municipal role model the City of Irving, Texas, may have some ideas .“Say what you mean and do what you say,” said City Manager Tommy Gonzalez. “Your employees need to understand the strategic plan and know what role they and… Read more

Sustainable development is often a difficult concept to grasp, especially considering, as most practitioners can attest, public administration is a domain with very few absolute answers and even fewer once-and-for-all solutions via Public Administration: Prioritizing the Process | PA TIMES Online. Read more

A new independent report contends Philadelphia’s new property tax assessments under the Actual Value Initiative, or AVI, are even more inaccurate than the current ones. Whether or not that’s true, homeowners across the city have been complaining about the new valuations. via Economist: Sound Philadelphia tax policy depends on AVI — NewsWorks.   My comment:… Read more

http://feedly.com/k/14nfDXk Across the nation, boards and superintendents are engaged in activities designed to benefit students. It should go without saying that a board and superintendent united in their efforts will produce the kind of district our children deserve and the community has a right to expect. If everyone has the same vision, why does the… Read more

http://feedly.com/k/14ngasb Sunday’s presentation, “Professional Governance Boards = Student Success,” was based on the idea that becoming a professionally functioning board of education is an essential precondition to a school district achieving sustainable student success. Read more

While public managers know that change is needed today due to budget cuts and sequestration, they also need to recognize that it will require leadership and the changing and aligning of measurement and management systems to truly make it happen. http://patimes.org/strategic-execution-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+patimes%2FlidQ+%28PA+TIMES+Online%29 Read more