Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

The ‘organization man’ is still alive and well in government

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Richard Florida has a great post on his blog about how government agencies are the last bastion of ‘organizational age’ thinking and activity. This is definitely true for the state departments of education I know and much of this rings true for school districts as well.

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