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  1. Winter Reading: Switch II - Shaping the Path Toward Change

    ... Body:  In their book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Crown, 2010), Chip and Dan Heath ... releases what they asked, what they were advised to do, and how helpful the advice was); and (2) having every board chair ask for possible ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  2. Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership

    ... beliefs and limited knowledge. His interest is especially in how mistaken moral beliefs are less about content (is this right or wrong?), but about scope (does this moral obligation ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  3. Winter Reading: Switch V - Simplifying and Motivating

    ... Simplifying Self-Supervision In their book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Crown, 2010), Chip and Dan Heath ... want to see themselves as the sort of people who know how to do things the right way, to responsibly handle their conflict situations. Think how an official would respond to a colleague who said, "Joe, you usually do ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  4. Winter Reading: Switch IV - Ethics Reform

    ... Lead to Poor Ethics Reform In their book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Crown, 2010), Chip and Dan Heath ... the sequence of change is not analyze-think-change, which is how most people (including me) try to bring it about, but rather ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  5. Winter Reading: Switch III - Goals and Destinations

    ... Toss a hundred people in a room, give them a lecture about how to be good, and that's it for at least a year or two. One of the case studies in Chip and Dan Heath's book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Crown, 2010) offers a different ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  6. Lobbyist Disclosure and Attorney-Client Privilege

    ... the practice of law? If he runs down to the local store to buy something for a neighbor-client, is that a confidential act? If he works to ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  7. Local Campaign Finance Laws Are Also Minimum Requirements

    ... issue. If you have contractors spending $1,000 a pop to buy the mayor, that guy won’t represent the average New Haven resident. Who ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  8. Definitions

    ... as they often are. Often, definitions include significant content, so that officials and employees must read the definitions before they ... ability to act impartially (as well as the perception of how the official would benefit from the company's success). The amount of ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-17 10:04 - 1 comment

  9. Summer Reading: Richard Painter on Ethics Reform II

    Body:  This is the second of three posts on how Richard W. Painter's recommendations for federal ethics reform in his book, Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference (Oxford U.P., 2009), may be applied ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  10. Giving Voice to Values I

    ... reality. Last year, a book came out which is focused on how each individual can end his or her silence with respect to ethics issues:  Mary C. Gentile's Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right (Yale University Press). ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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