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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 undertakings of USAID and the Provincial Government of Bulacan. After Sta. Rita's retirement in public service few weeks back, she now joins a top team of consultants of USAID projects in the Philippines....more
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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... continueThe MUST READ for Leaders & Public Managers
Running a Bureaucracy is the definitive guidebook for the LGU administrator, public manager and
elected official. Every chapter supplies valuable information and inspiration vital to the daily task of administrating, managing and vision-setting of the new Filipino
public manager. With up-to-date lessons, how-to's and anecdote is on fresh public management technologies in the Philippines and abroad, this guidebook will take its users to a journey
of creative possibilities in professionalism, excellence and high-impact public service.
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