In this section you will find the blogs related to leadership and public administration. The issues that are necessary on a day-to-day basis. For example, how to improve communication between teams, how to manage teams or how to improve the use of your time. If you can’t find something contact me, I love to receive suggestions for new topics.
A conversation with Gulzar Natarajan, Secretary of Finance of Andrah Pradesh, on what it takes to get things done in practice. Listen to some of the lessons he has learned and some practical tips to improve policy implementation.
Data has regained its importance in public policy design and implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog, we examine how three of the most economically important cities in the Americas – Miami, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires – have used data to guide their respective roads to recovery.
A conversation with Harvard Professor Dan Levy about his latest book, Maxims for Thinking Analytically. We talk about how to better understand the world around you, make smarter decisions, and ultimately live a more fulfilling life.
Decision-making in the public sector can be paralyzing. You have to decide on complex issues, under uncertainty and limited by several restrictions (time, money, politics, etc.). This blog summarizes some practical tools to help you think clearly from Dan Levy’s new book Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The wisdom of legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zeckhauser.
How do you get a decision-maker’s attention? This blog gives you three keys to help you sell your ideas to decision-makers effectively and achieve results. You can also download the cheatsheet with the key points.
One characteristic of working in the public sector is dealing with competing priorities and no time to address them all. How do you choose what to do and what to delegate? This simple tool will help you.
The fear of project failure has crossed everyone’s minds. And it’s more stressful knowing that failing in the public sector doesn’t seem to be an option. This article guides you through a simple method to identify if you are failing, learn from it and try again something different.