Robert Behn's Public Management Report
Robert D. Behn serves as a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and is also the faculty chair of the school's program: Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results. Professor Behn is also the author of The Public Management Report, which he describes as: "An occasional (and maybe insightful) examination of the issues, dilemmas, challenges and opportunities in leadership, governance, management, and performance in public agencies."
The Public Management Report is useful reading for any public manager, but is particularly appropriate for CPMs wishing to continue the learning they began as they obtained their certifications. Professor Behn covers a wide range of topics relevant to day-to-day leadership and management. We are grateful to Professor Behn to be able to provide access his archive of past Public Management Report articles through the links below. For the most current article, please visit Robert Behn's Management Report web site directly. In addition, we encourage readers to subscribe to the Public Management Report, for free, in order to receive future editions directly.
Current Article:
"Managerial Perception Gap" available on The Behn Report Web Site.
Past Articles:
- September 2006: Performance Deficit
- August
2006: The Imperative of Adaptatio
- July 2006: Obsessed With "Best Practice"
- June 2006: Frederick Winslow Taylor Lives
- May 2006: Limitation of Systems
- April 2006: Learn from Dissimilar Situations
- March 2006: The Ubiquitous How? Question
- February 2006: Stovepipe Bureaucracies Live
- January 2006: End Annual Personnel Appraisals
- December 2005: Fix the Dissatisfiers First
- November 2005: Resistence to Measurement
- October 2005: Managerial Competence
- September 2005: The Anna Karenina Principle
- August 2005: Charter Agencies
- July 2005: Operational Theories
- June 2005: M-Gov, E-Gov, and I-Gov
- May 2005: Hoop Jumping
- April 2005: The Performance Treadmill
- March 2005: The Accountability Dilemma
- February 2005: An Adrenaline Rush
- January 2005: The Magical Performance System
- December 2004: The Charisma Excuse
- November 2004: CitiStat
- October 2004: Year Two
- September 2004: Bureaucratic Routines
- August 2004: Multiple Performance Measures
- July 2004: Why Measure Performance?
- June 2004: Measure Outputs
- May 2004: Esteem Opportunities
- April 2004: Dumb Rules
- March 2004: Grading Agencies
- February 2004: Beating Expecations
- January 2004: Pay for Performance
- December 2003: Cookbook Management
- November 2003: Friendly Competition
- October 2003: The List
- September 2003: Performance Targets
For more detailed information about Professor Behn and his work, see Robert Behn's
personal web site and Robert Behn's
faculty web site. In brief, Robert Behn is "a lecturer
at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government,
[where he] is the faculty chair of the School’s executive-education
program on "Driving
Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results." He
specializes in governance, leadership, performance, and the management
of large public agencies and conducts custom-designed
executive-education programs for public agencies."
"Bob earned a B.S. in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in decision and control from Harvard University. He served on the staff of Governor Francis W. Sargent of Massachusetts, as a scholar in residence with the Council for Excellence in Government, and on the faculty of the Harvard Business School and of Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, where he was director of its Governors Center." (source: www.ksg.harvard.edu/TheBehnReport/about.html)
In accordance with our copyright policy and applicable law, the articles above are referenced with permission and copyright is held solely by the author, Robert Behn.