Don’t be Afraid to Change
Guest blog written by Joshua Higginbotham Coming into the course, I felt overconfident in my own policy-making abilities. Now, I realize that I don’t know as much as I thought […]
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Public Leadership Through Crisis 16: Empowering work and learning, even if things seem chaotic
written by Matt Andrews The last few blog posts have offered various lessons from practice – in Liberia’s 2014 Ebola crisis and Bahrain’s current Covid-19 crisis. I offered these lessons […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 15: The COVID-19 Crisis in Bahrain
written by Matt Andrews Hamad Almalki is the Undersecretary for National Economy at Bahrain’s Ministry of Finance and National Economy. He is a graduate of the Edward S. Mason mid-career […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 14: Lessons on Crisis Communication from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
written by Matt Andrews Peter Harrington is an alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School, and a former fellow with the Building State Capability program (BSC). In 2014, Peter worked with […]
PDIA Helped Me Find My Way and My Voice
Guest blog written by Yasmine Robinson At first I was not sure how PDIA would be applicable to what I do as an urban planner, but as I listened to […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 13: Tolbert Nyenswah on leading through Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
written by Matt Andrews Tolbert Nyenswah is a Senior Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2014 he was the head of the Liberian Incident […]
Remember the Sherpas!
Guest blog written by Marco Mastellari When I came in to the course, I thought to myself that what I really wanted to learn was a predesigned structure or framework, […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 11: Reorganizing to address the crisis
written by Matt Andrews I was on a call two days ago with a former student who is now deeply involved in his country’s Covid-19 crisis response. He said something […]
Engage with the People in the Place
Guest blog written by Julia Martin “PDIA is about engaging with the people in the place.” If I think back to the last few months, this line from Matt’s blog […]
Coronavirus and behaviour: Why leaders need better ‘risk communication’
Guest blog written by Peter Harrington Last week I wrote a post on how the Coronavirus pandemic, like Ebola, needs to be understood as a complex adaptive problem which requires […]