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FEATURES
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Taking action on the Public
Service Employee Survey:
Thermal Mapping of Results
by John Kung and Betty Ann M. Turpin
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What I’ve learned about
leadership in the public
sector
by Tony Dean
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Creating a Real Dialogue
with Citizens:
A Vision of “Day-to-Day” Democracy
by Benjamin Selinger and Gabriel Flores
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Attracting Talent to
Municipal Government:
The Toronto Urban Fellows after five
years
by Louise Gorby
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On the Political Trail:
Moving to Open Source Technology
Should be the Issue!
by Mathieu Weber
departments
22 Effective relationships
augment Internal Audit’s value
by Chris Brown
23 Middle Management
Beyond gridlock … Resilience
by John Wilkins
25 Digital Governance
Twitter, Turkey and the Alpha Male
by Jeffrey Roy
26 Program Evaluation :
What Keeps You Up at Night? How to
get some sleep
By Gail Vallance Barrington
27 New Professionals
Getting connected with functional
communities and networks
by Lisa Sullivan
28 The Leader’s Bookshelf
Triggers
by Harvey Schachter
30 THE LAST WORD
Bureaucracy and a new government
by David Zussman
THE INTERVIEW
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Regina’s Public Policy
Book Club
Rod Windover talks with Winter Fedyk
and Dan Perrins about a unique
Knowledge Transfer tool
THE DASHBOARD
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Refugees, by the millions
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