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Having mused over this journal’s fall 2010 forum (presently in layout) on lessons learned from Katrina and the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – it’s hard not to get sick over government’s failure to see in advance that something was terribly wrong, about to go...

Picture this. You’re tutoring a forty-something college graduate from the former Yugoslavia. The discussion gets around to some of the cultural differences between his new democratic republic and the United States. Back home, pay-to-play is axiomatic – particularly when dealing with elected...

For over 40 years, as a recovering cultural anthropologist working in the federal government and later outside as a public management consultant, I've been a participant observer and chronicler of "the culture(s) of bureaucracy." This blog seeks to illuminate the topic by drawing on case...