Art of Governance or Inviting Transformation

Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and Administration

Author: Patricia W Ingraham

"This volume takes relational concept into new realms of conceptualization and application as it links alternative institutional and administrative structures to program performance in different policy areas and levels of government. Collectively, the contributors begin to paint a new picture of how management matters throughout the policy process. They illuminate how, at different levels of an organization, leadership and management vary - and explore both the significance of structural systems and the importance of alternative organizational forms for the implementation of public policies." The Art of Governance shows that effective governance is much more complex than paint-by-number, but if the variety of forms and models of governance are analyzed using advanced theories, models, methods, and data, important lessons can be applied that can lead to more successful institutions.

Interesting book: Eating for IBS or Feeding the Hungry Heart

Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World

Author: Sonja K Foss

Inviting Transformation discusses presentational speaking in diverse contexts and settings. The primary purpose of such speaking is to invite growth and change for both speaker and audience. Readers are encouraged to choose communicative options that create an environment characterized by safety, value, freedom, and openness. The short work presents five interactional goals: asserting individuality, building community, articulating a perspective, securing adherence, and discovering knowledge and belief. Sample presentations reflect diversity in speakers, organizational patterns, forms of elaboration, and contexts. Inviting Transformation assumes students are already competent communicators; it thus provides only essential information for making choices in inventing, planning, and developing presentations. If the choices contribute to the creation of the environment described above, the resulting interaction will enable all involved to consider changing in some way—leading to further conversations that produce greater understanding, more creative solutions to problems, and more opportunities for transformation.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Inviting Transformation	1
	Choosing International Goals	23
	Creating Environment	35
	Focusing	49
	Framing	59
	Elaborating	73
	Beginning and Ending	87
	Connecting Ideas	97
	Delivering	103
	Assessing Choices	119
	Sample Presentations	133
	Retailing Clothing and Cosmetics: Response to an Interview Question	133
	Exhibiting With Pride	136
	I am a Man, a Black Man, an American	137
	City Planning as a Career	145
	Whose Woods These Are	147
	Remarks at International Consumer Electronics Show	151
	A Statement for Voices Unheard: A Challenge to the National Book Awards	157
	A Flair for Fashion: A Welcome to New Employees	158
	Our Lives, One Life	160
	Commencement Address	164
	Who Is a True Friend?	170
	Statement in Opposition to S.J. Resolution 23, Authorizing the Use of Military Force	172
	Winning the Cultural War	174
	Arcata Town Meeting	179
	Focus-Group Discussion of The Lantern	186
	Endnotes	189
	Index	197