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Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, March 18, 2011 - PRESIDENT Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III appointed former Bulacan provincial administrator Ma. Gladys Cruz-Sta. Rita as one of the two new members of the board of directors of the Philippine National Oil Company.
Sta. Rita, along with fellow new appointee former Senator Victor Ziga, took her oath of office before Energy Secretary Rene Almendras during a simple ceremony at the PNOC central office, in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, last March 18. Sta. Rita, who has served the provincial government for 17 years....more
Bali, Indonesia, 23 FEB 2010 — There is hope for the bureaucracy. It can be done. Running A Bureaucracy: A Guidebook for LGU Administrators, Other Public Managers, and Elected Officials author Ma. Gladys Cruz-Sta. Rita brings her timeless message of inspiration and hope for good governance and democracy in the Philippines and the Asian region, during her recent trip to Bali, Indonesia, where she spoke before regional and local government....more
National Book Board Hails RAB in 2009 Awards
Makati City, Dec 09, 2009 -- A fruitful, hopeful year for the bureaucracy it has been, as Running A Bureaucracy book was recognized
by the national book awards body of the Philippines as one among the most excellent read of the year.....more
Makati City, Dec 09, 2009 -- A fruitful, hopeful year for the bureaucracy it has been, as Running A Bureaucracy book was recognized
by the national book awards body of the Philippines as one among the most excellent read of the year.....more
MANILA -- Running a Bureaucracy: A Guidebook for Local Government Unit Administrators, other Public Managers, and Elected Officials, a University of the Philippines NCPAG Centenial Publication, recently received another commendation from no less than Mission Director Jon Lindborg of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Philippines.Book author, and longest serving provincial administrator of the country, Ma. Gladys C. Sta. Rita recently visited Director Lindborg at his USAID office and was warmly welcomed by the latter who had known her from previous....more
What Readers Say...
Running A Bureaucracy is the public manager's sourcebook of good governance lessons and practical reference in his daily mission as a leader of people. This is what people who have read and kept the book in their A-list, have to say. Click here...
The Book
A Sneak Peek... All of the book’s 480 pages are packed with useful, relevant, and essential information for the new public manager. Chapters, sections and graphical page breakers are to make reading easy and referencing coherent and faithful to the guidebook... more
Introduction Welcome to Running A Bureaucracy: A Guidebook for Local Government Unit Administrators, Public Managers, and Elected Officials in the Philippines.
Being an LGU administrator or public manager is one of the most challenging... more
Life Principles for the Public Manager Running A Bureaucraccy is not only about efficiency and excellence. It is also about the core values that provide us the compass to navigate towards principled leadership. These are life principles for the public manager who would want to make... more
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: Lessons Learned
I have learned a long time ago how to learn. And when I was given the opportunity to attend the Kennedy School of Government’s Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government in 2002 at the Harvard University in Massachusets,... more
Coping With the Dirty Work Or When People, Papers, Meetings and Pressures Collide
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of Life’s coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
Dirty work does not mean work that you totally abhor or a misdeed and dishonor in the service. In public managers’... more
What people say about Running a Bureaucracy
My career in public service starting as a city councilor in Quezon City from 1988 to 1992 reinforced my conviction that genuine transformation in the... continue
Running A Bureaucracy: A Guidebook for LGU Administrators, other Public Managers and Elected Officials is a path-breaking book because it... continue
“The author competently culls from her experiences as government administrator to unravel details of what would ordinarily read like mysteries couched... continueWhat's New
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Asian Democracy in Focus
BALI, INDONESIA— The Philippines had given the world one of the most memorable lessons in democracy. People Power is very much our own brand of radical, participative democracy that defied the very conventions of government as we have come to know it. But, it had inspired other democratizing nations to rethinking their own brand of peaceful change of government. As the Philippines celebrated the 24th anniversary of People Power, I was in a conference that had put into close scrutiny the very essence of Asian democracy in this age. Personally, it could not have come at a better time for me, as I am a product of the People Power government... more
Asian Democracy in Focus
BALI, INDONESIA— The Philippines had given the world one of the most memorable lessons in democracy. People Power is very much our own brand of radical, participative democracy that defied the very conventions of government as we have come to know it. But, it had inspired other democratizing nations to rethinking their own brand of peaceful change of government. As the Philippines celebrated the 24th anniversary of People Power, I was in a conference that had put into close scrutiny the very essence of Asian democracy in this age. Personally, it could not have come at a better time for me, as I am a product of the People Power government... more
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