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After many years, my perspective has broadened: my recent analyses and academic writings focus on improving systems of organizations rather than single entities. My current work involves analyzing ways to foster federal agency collaboration across organizational boundaries, with state and local governments, nonprofits, and private companies. A 2007 IBM Center monograph on improving organizational collaboration to learn lessons from Hurricane Katrina was published by a nonprofit partner of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In summary, my career is at a point where I am able to bring different intellectual disciplines to bear on important problems. One is public administration and design of organizations and interorganizational relationships. Another is the nature of the law and how it shapes capacity, authority, accountability, and behavior of governmental and private institutions. My professional experience has taught me that insights from public administration, too often neglected in both academe and practice, are potentially quite valuable in addressing fundamental issues of government and the private sector.
My personal view, formed many years ago as a federal Senior Executive, is that “feedback is a gift.” Tough but fair criticism has helped me strengthen many of my ideas and writings.Your feedback on any of the writings on this website is cordially invited.
My current interests relate to governance and lessons we might learn from the financial debacle that has revealed extensive governance shortcomings in both the private and public sectors. Your suggestions and recommended readings are cordially invited.