COVID-19: Planning for Tomorrow’s Problems Today
Guest blog written by Peter Harrington When he started his blog series on crisis leadership on these pages, Matt Andrews asked: can public leaders navigate high winds and big waves […]
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Public Leadership Through Crisis 19: How do political leaders commonly structure their roles?
written by Matt Andrews This is the second of four blogs addressing questions about political engagement in crisis response organization. The questions are: Who are political leaders and what roles […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 18: Who are Political Leaders and What is their Role?
written by Matt Andrews I have used a few blogs to discuss the need for governments to reorganize when facing crisis, adopting flat, fast and flexible structures. There are various […]
Public Leadership Through crisis 17: ‘Keep an eye’ on how your crisis response impacts Public Value
written by Matt Andrews This post captures the second part of my interview with Mark Moore (you can find the first part here). It asks how governments should think about […]
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 […]
Listen to our fourth virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis
On April 17th, 2020, we hosted a fourth virtual discussion with Matt Andrews, who answered audience questions on his new Public Leadership Through Crisis blog series. Here are some of the questions […]
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 […]
Register for our new Executive Education program: Leading Economic Growth (online)
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to evolve in the US and around the world, we believe now is an important time to convene policymakers and practitioners around the critical […]
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 […]