City Management: Keys to Success

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AuthorHouse, May 21, 2002 - Education - 224 pages

At last, a good book about one of the most exciting career opportunities available in the country today – city management.

It is an exciting and rewarding career because all the great issues our society – crime, pollution, urban sprawl, economic development, traffic congestion, race relations and terrorism – are concentrated in our cities. City managers dealing with these issues are in a unique position to make a positive difference in the lives of people in their communities.

This book will:

Help the reader evaluate city management as a career

Explain the educational and work experience needed to become a city manager

Give helpful tips that will allow the reader to have a long and successful career in city management

Explain how to deal effectively with hate groups

Explain how the news media works and how to deal with them

Identify the danger signs of a city manager in trouble

Gently guide the reader through losing a city manager’s job and starting over

Help the reader prepare mentally for retirement.

The book is a must read for anyone who has – or wants – a management position in the public sector.

 

Selected pages

Contents

HOW DO I BECOME A CITY MANAGER?
8
GETTING THAT FIRST CITY MANAGERS JOB
22
THE NEW CITY MANAGERS POSITION
30
A LONG AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER CHAPTER 6 DEALING WITH HATE GROUPS
64
MANAGING DURING A MAJOR EMERGENCY
99
THE NEWS MEDIA ALLY OR ADVERSARY?
112
TAKING CARE OF COUNCIL
134
RECOGNIZING WHEN YOU ARE
149
LOSING THE
168
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About the author (2002)

Orville Powell, M.P.A., is recognized in this country and internationally as an expert in the field of city administration. Mr. Powell has over thirty years experience as a city manager, assistant city manager and budget director of cities in North Carolina and Florida. He has worked as a consultant in the areas of economic development, citizen participation, governmental reorganizations, financial management and mass transit with local governments in the United States, Russia, Bulgaria, India, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. He is currently a clinical associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, where he teaches graduate-level courses in public sector management.

Bibliographic information

TitleCity Management: Keys to Success
AuthorOrville W. Powell
PublisherAuthorHouse, 2002
ISBN140332302X, 9781403323026
Length224 pages
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Education / General
Political Science / General
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