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  • Re: Hermeneutics: Something New for the Bureaucrat's Toolkit

    Two thoughts: 1) Meaning is almost always embedded in context. It's not unusual for seemingly differential treatment to be taken out of context based on a sort of "theory of limited good" interpretation. That is, there is only so much good (in the world), and if she's getting more of something (e.g., attention, help, resources, etc...
    Posted to General Discussion (Forum) by Warren Master on 07-30-2010

  • Hermeneutics: Something New for the Bureaucrat's Toolkit

    Hermeneutics: Something New for the Bureaucrat’s Toolkit Public managers within a single organization commonly define fundamental terms differently. Since public managers come from diverse backgrounds and have different experiences, it’s not unexpected that they interpret the world around them differently. Are these differences in understanding...
    Posted to General Discussion (Forum) by Griffin Coop on 07-29-2010

  • A Solution for Crumbling Dams

    by Mick Mortlock Millions of people live down river from dams that have high potential for failure. In the last year many of those dams collapsed and just last week, the Delhi Dam in Iowa failed, destroying 900 homes. Every year, neighborhoods, and schools are flooded, fish are wiped out, wildlife habitat is destroyed. Millions of downstream residents...
    Posted to Agile Bureaucracy (Weblog) by Maribeth Tisdale on 07-29-2010

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