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A Question Of Investment: Is Prevention Worth The Price?, Scott B. Smith, Christine G. Springer
A Question Of Investment: Is Prevention Worth The Price?, Scott B. Smith, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
In today’s calculus of public and private budgeting, an ounce of prevention may no longer be worth a pound of “cure.”
“Prevention” takes many forms: Preparing one’s family for an emergency. Buying life and property insurance. Buying corporate insurance. Having a sufficiently-sized and well-trained security workforce at your workplace. Supporting law enforcement efforts to get one step ahead of the bad guy (whether a criminal or a terrorist). Supporting entities like UNLV’s Institute for Security Studies whose sole raison d’etre is to make Las Vegas and Nevada a safe and secure place to live, work and visit.
Contract Management: A P.A. Education For Boundary Managers., M. Ernita Joaquin
Contract Management: A P.A. Education For Boundary Managers., M. Ernita Joaquin
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
Graduates of public administration programs might reasonably be expected to accurately spell out, even in their sleep, POSDCoRB. After all, it was Luther Gulick's rock-hewn formulation of the skills involved in public administration, circa 1937. Almost seven decades later, in their book Governing by Network, Stephen Goldsmith and William Eggers called for a
cultural transformation in the way we build capacity in the public sector, and, as I see it, crafting a new POSDCoRB for our time.