Purpose of this Online Journal
The object of this online journal is to provide a participative and informative forum for what we hope will grow into an increasingly productive virtual conversation about the key determinants of organizational excellence in government. We will facilitate the online discussion by sharing what four decades of organizational consulting experience have taught us and continue to teach us about the most important distinguishing characteristics of high-performing government agencies and organizations. We anticipate that this ongoing exchange will explore many additional attributes our site visitors tell us are also critical to exemplary government agency performance.
The audience for this online journal is persons who fill (or plan to fill) executive roles within federal, state or local government as well as public management scholars wishing to share their expert knowledge, other organizational consultants eager to exchange practitioner insights about the core elements of organizational excellence in government, and anyone else who wishes to join in a thoughtful and continuously evolving conversation about what it takes for a government agency to excel at achieving what it wants and what it must.
We will regularly add new posts that analyze government workplace and workforce issues in terms of one or more of the major organizational effectiveness topics covered by the journal. Why are we doing this? Frankly, because initiating and facilitating awareness-building exchanges and learning-oriented discussions is our calling—it’s what we do. We have spent our entire professional lives, and a fair amount of our private lives, facilitating all kinds of group deliberations on important organizational effectiveness issues and organizational performance challenges. For us it would constitute a deeply satisfying experience to facilitate an online conversation that ultimately helps government agencies and public sector executives find and follow new pathways toward higher levels of performance.
