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20 Government Videos
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How does leadership happen?
nyu.edu— — “NYU Wagner Associate Professor Sonia M. Ospina discusses the paradox of leadership.”
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Hip Hop & Politics: Privatization of Prisons
qd3.com— — “Problems of prison overcrowding and high costs has led to the privatization of prisons. Watch this clip from QD3’s “Letter to the President” DVD as artists talk about private prisons as a booming industry.”
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Long Journey, Young Lives
abc.net.au— — “Award winning filmmaker David Goldie and his co-producer Sohail Dahdal joined together to make Long Journey, Young Lives . . . The project features a series of clips featuring either a refugee child discussing their experience or an Australian child sharing their thoughts on asylum seekers.”
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From the Mouths of Leaders
youtube.com— — British video featuring ‘inspirational’ quotes from ‘leaders’
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FedEx vs. Government Bureaucracy -- Newt Gingrich
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Privatization and the Common Good
deimos3.apple.com— — “Martha Minow speaks to Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics Distinguished Lecture Series on the relationship between privatization and the public good.”
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Gender, Negotiation, and Leadership
hks.harvard.edu— — ‘It’s been a commonly stated perception that women simply need to “act more like men” to claim power and achieve positions of leadership.’
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How Institutions Can Innovate--Creativity in the Public Sector
webcast.berkeley.edu— — “Presentation on creativity in the public sector by Michael R. Peevey President of the California Public Utilities Commission.”
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Turnpike for Sale? Privatization and the Public Interest
policy.rutgers.edu— — “Discussion of privatization, in general, and then with a focus on New Jersey,
featuring Joseph Giglio (Professor, Northeastern University), Brad Abelow (State Treasurer), Kris Kolluri (Transportation Commissioner), Ray Lesniak (Senator), John Wisniewski (Assemblyman).” -
eGov at Work: Improving Service Delivery in Ghana
youtube.com— — “Through the eGhana project, the World Bank is supporting public-private partnerships to improve efficiency and transparency through selected e-Government applications.”
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An introduction to human resources management
deimos3.apple.com— — “A lecture from Naomi Rotter from the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s School of Management introducing human resource management concepts.”
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Leadership Management and Change Management
youtube.com— — Video describing leadership ‘types’
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An Urgent Need for Action
ourpublicservice.org— — “Americans need effective government. Every day, we rely on our federal government to deliver vital services, and emerging challenges such as the threat of terrorism and globalization intensify the need for our government to act on the most pressing problems facing our nation.”
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The Chaser - Suprise Spruiker visits the AWB
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The Chaser's AWB Cheque Sketch
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Sharing - The Leadership Challenge
video.google.ca— — British Government video on leadership issues surrounding shared service delivery
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Inspiring Leadership
youtube.com— — British promotional masterclass video on inspiring leadership
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Leadership and adaptability
hks.harvard.edu— — “The challenge for today’s leaders is to develop an adaptive capacity in our local societies that makes people capable of succeeding in a highly interdependent world in which there is no single person in control of the enterprise.”
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CIA Refuses to Release “Dynamite” Report on 9/11 Accountability
play.rbn.com— — “The CIA is ignoring calls from members of the House Intelligence Committee to release an internal report on whether agency employees should be held accountable for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.”
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The Secret Life of the Office
exploratorium.edu— — “Today, over 50% of jobs are in offices, but 160 years ago the figure was only 1%, and the only office workers were ‘Dickensian’ clerks. They had considerable status and freedom to organise their work, and kept financial ledgers, but there were no forms, memos, reports, etc.”