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Learning to Lead Economic Growth during COVID-19 January 20, 2021
Working with local governments to improve service delivery in Indonesia January 19, 2021
Using the PDIA Toolkit to Help a Nonprofit in Philadelphia January 14, 2021
4 Ways to Rethink Economic Growth During COVID-19 January 12, 2021
LA FÁBRICA, a strategy for the economic transformation and social inclusion of Renca, a commune in Chile January 6, 2021
Learning about Economic Growth in the Middle of a Pandemic December 31, 2020
A Problem-driven Approach to Complexity, Public Policy and Economic Growth December 29, 2020
PDIA and Coordination Challenges within Government December 22, 2020
Leading Economic Growth 2020: Moving Executive Education Online during a Pandemic December 15, 2020
Becoming Comfortable with Complexity December 15, 2020
PDIA and Dementia in the Workplace December 14, 2020
Strengthening Collaboration to Tackle Increasing Homicides in Charlotte, North Carolina December 11, 2020
A Reflection on PDIA in Action: Homelessness in Tarrant County December 9, 2020
Bringing the Field to the Classroom: Learning to do PDIA in Practice December 8, 2020
IPP Program Journey: From South Africa To Boston and Back December 8, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Re-Enforcement of Passion for Public Service December 8, 2020
IPP Program Journey: You Need to be Brave December 7, 2020
IPP Program Journey: A Bridge to Sustainable Development begins with Purpose December 3, 2020
IPP Program Journey: The Origins, Gospel, Path and Light at the End of the Tunnel December 1, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Poor Tax Collection in Nigeria November 27, 2020
IPP Program Journey: A Professional Watershed in a Land of Climate Change November 25, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Public Policy is Not only about Ticking the Checkboxes November 23, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Adapt, Learn and Win November 19, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Public Policy Problems are both Inevitable and Approachable November 19, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Feeling Excited, then Misplaced, then Overwhelmed, then Inspired! November 12, 2020
RISE Launches Interactive Data Visualisations Estimating Long-Term Learning Losses from COVID-19 School Closures November 9, 2020
Leveraging Technology to Improve Forecasting and Monitoring of Local Government Budgets November 9, 2020
COVID Budgeting – Fiscal Response and Challenges October 27, 2020
How Should Governments Manage Budget Cuts of 20% (or more) in 2021? October 7, 2020
Will Government Budgets in 2021 involve more COVID-19 ‘Whack-A-Mole’? October 2, 2020
COVID-19 is Poised to Exacerbate the Learning Crisis, Evidence from Long-term School Closures in Pakistan September 25, 2020
New Online Program: Budgeting in a Time of Crisis September 15, 2020
Charting a new course: Education systems after COVID-19 September 9, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Congo Calling Rebooted September 8, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Finding Leadership Confidence August 16, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Early Childhood Education in Brazil July 30, 2020
COVID Act Two: Look beyond your borders to navigate what comes next July 28, 2020
Flexibility and Learning in Times of Global Uncertainty June 19, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Highlighting Experience and Learning June 17, 2020
Practice Makes Purpose June 10, 2020
IPP Program Journey: IT Project for a Pay Transparency Initiative June 9, 2020
The Big Stuck: Updated June 3, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Creating a Workplace Culture of Continuous Learners and Self-Starters June 2, 2020
Register for our Implementing Public Policy (online) Program May 20, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Lost in Authorization May 19, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Changing the Way we do Business, through Data Sharing May 14, 2020
IPP Program Journey: PDIA is a Journey about How to Engage May 5, 2020
Listen to our sixth virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis April 28, 2020
IPP Program Journey: PDIA Application in the Private Sector April 27, 2020
Growth after the Coronavirus: Thoughts and Questions April 22, 2020
Listen to our fifth virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis April 21, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Jumping the Wall April 21, 2020
COVID-19: Planning for Tomorrow’s Problems Today April 17, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 19: How do political leaders commonly structure their roles? April 17, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 18: Who are Political Leaders and What is their Role? April 16, 2020
Public Leadership Through crisis 17: ‘Keep an eye’ on how your crisis response impacts Public Value April 14, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Don’t be Afraid to Change April 14, 2020
Listen to our fourth virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis April 13, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 16: Empowering work and learning, even if things seem chaotic April 13, 2020
Register for our new Executive Education program: Leading Economic Growth (online) April 10, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 15: The COVID-19 Crisis in Bahrain April 9, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 14: Lessons on Crisis Communication from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic April 8, 2020
Listen to our third virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis April 7, 2020
IPP Learning Journey: PDIA Helped Me Find My Way and My Voice April 7, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 13: Tolbert Nyenswah on leading through Liberia’s Ebola epidemic April 6, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 12: Course correct; it’s hard, but you must—and can—do it April 1, 2020
Listen to our second virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis March 31, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Remember the Sherpas! March 31, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 11: Reorganizing to address the crisis March 30, 2020
Listen to our first virtual discussion on Public Leadership Through Crisis March 26, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 10: Lessons from experience March 25, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Engage with the People in the Place March 24, 2020
Leading Remote Teams during Covid-19 March 23, 2020
Coronavirus and behaviour: Why leaders need better ‘risk communication’ March 23, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 9: Pursue flat, fast, and flexible organizing structures March 23, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 8: You’re not ready. No one is. Prepare to work differently March 20, 2020
Seeing Pandemics as Complex Adaptive Problems March 20, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 7: Additional resources for you March 19, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 6: Know your role, Empower others to play their roles and Stay in your lane. March 18, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 5: Good communication ideas you might consider March 17, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 4: You as a leader must be smarter than your brain March 17, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Enhancing the employability of young people in Guinea March 17, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 3: Be brave, calm, adaptive; there is no perfect crisis response March 16, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 2: Know your motivation, put communications and key people first March 16, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 1: Can public leaders navigate high winds and big waves in little boats? March 15, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Finding Family through Process Improvement March 10, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Motivation Sustains Passion the PDIA way March 3, 2020
IPP Program Journey: The Legitimacy of Performance and Problem Oriented Institutional Development February 25, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Solving Complex Problems in Albany February 18, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Three Lessons of PDIA, or the Art of Public Policy February 11, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Disaster Resilience in Australia February 4, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Improving Roadside Ecology in Calgary January 28, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Improving Tax Compliance in Uganda January 21, 2020
BSC 2019: The Year in Review January 17, 2020
PDIA Course Journey: Lagos Beats Plastic December 10, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Local Problems, Local Solutions to the Indonesian Education Sector December 6, 2019
Introducing our new Practice of PDIA Podcast Series November 27, 2019
Why I Almost Left Local Government (and Why I Decided to Stay) November 22, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) November 19, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Solving the Problem of Unemployment in Jordan November 12, 2019

PDIA Anthem Part 2

We are delighted to share our new fun PDIA Anthem that you can add to your summer playlist!

As you can see, we’ve iterated and adapted our music style from our first PDIA Anthem.

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