You MUST watch this: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four
The Rise and Fall of the GDP
Check out this interesting article on GDP. Read the New York Times Article
Neighborkid Wisdom Revealed through Results-Based Accountability, Allison Pinto, Sarasota County, Florida.
Neighborkid Wisdom Revealed through Results-Based Accountability, Allison Pinto, Sarasota County, Florida. http://la-casa-chica.blogspot.com/2010/04/neighborkid-wisdom-revealed-through.html
Parody of a Logic Model
This is very funny and I wish I knew who created it. A paper is in the works on “The 5 Things Wrong with Logic Models (and why everyone hates them).” Here’s a preview: 1) They start in the wrong place with means not ends. 2) They restrict rather than expand people’s thinking. 3) They assume life is linear and …
Goals Gone Wild: How Goal Setting Can Lead to Disaster
In early 1969, just as the U.S. was preparing to reach John F. Kennedy’s lofty goal of sending Americans to the moon, the famed Ford executive Lee Iacocca gave a similarly ambitious mandate to his team of engineers. Faced for the first time with competition from low-cost, high-mileage foreign imports, Iacocca set a specific target: Ford would design a new …
What You Need to Know About Privatization
When government-delivered services are contracted out to for-profit and/or nonprofit providers, it is called “privatization.” While this method has been part of the government landscape for many years, elected officials and government managers often don’t know the basics of when privatization is appropriate and how to make it work. Privatization appears to offer many benefits, including the possibility of reduced …
It’s All About Results – Mark Friedman’s Interview with The Guardian
The connection between fixing a leaking roof and implementing the Every Child Matters (ECM) programme may not be immediately obvious. But US performance management expert Mark Friedman will today tell children’s services’ leaders that the two challenges are essentially the same. Not that society’s ills will be put right by a few tiles or rolls of duct tape, but the …
