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.