A regular part of Public Management (PM) magazine’s content specifically published for ICMA members is the “Council Relations” department. Written by former manager and management adviser Mike Conduff, ICMA-CM, the department articles focus on how to work out problems with elected officials and how to get them working together as a group. Here are the articles that were published from 2013 to 2016 year-to-date.
March 2016: Threats From Within
March 2015: Before In Transition
May 2015: A Good Governance System
July 2015: Governance Resiliency
December 2015: Aligning Governance and Management Performance
March 2014 Coping with Nasty
May 2014: The Principle of One Voice
July 2014: Good Governance Does Exist!
October 2014: Leadership Legacy Matters
December 2014: Turn Your Retreat into Excellence
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March 2013: Of Power and Promises
May 2013: Governance Insights on the Back of a Horse
July 2013: One Bad Apple
September 2013: Next-Generation Elected Officials
December 2013: The Best Laid Plans
Watch for news when later in 2015 ICMA will publish Making It Work: The Essentials of Council-Manager Relations, an e-book coauthored by Kevin Duggan, ICMA West Coast regional director, Mountain View, California, and Mike Conduff, president, The Elim Group, Denton, Texas.
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