In May 2015, the CityLinks team and a delegation from Boulder, Colorado journeyed to Shimla, India as part of the Climate Adaptation Partnership Program.

To help individuals maximize their bargaining prowess at work and in life, here are seven strategies for emerging victorious in any negotiation:

The “business as usual” approach to building the public sector workforce is no longer relevant and should be replaced with a method to reflect the changing workforce.

Contractual arrangements that simply involve a local government buying services from another government, nonprofit, or private entity were not considered in this article.

Authors of this article agree with PM author Kevin Desouza that no engagement with residents is better than bad engagement, but they argue that it is desirable to keep experimenting because the goal is to make progress, not to achieve perfection.

My hypothesis is that the local government model is not working, and managers need to change that model.