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In The Federal Management Playbook, Goldstein draws on his decades of experience as a consulting executive and federal government executive to coach how to effectively motivate government employees, pick the right technologies, communicate and negotiate with powerful stakeholders, manage risks, get value from contractors, and foster innovation.

This study was concerned with problem solving under two display conditions. In one condition ("Sequential"), only those response alternatives permissable at any given time were displayed at that time. Under the other condition ("Batch"), all response alternatives, permissable at the moment or not, were presented at all times. Significantly greater time was found to be required to learn solutions using the "Batch" display. This requirement was attributed to the significantly greater display search-time which was found to be required in that condition. No significant difference in number of trials to reach the criterion of learning solutions was found, indicating that the additional material displayed in the "Batch" condition carries no significant amount of useful information. It is concluded that displaying data which has only potential relevance is not only ineffective but actually degrades performance.

Restructuring the Philadelphia Region offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalities in America's large urban regions. Moving beyond simplistic analyses of cities-versus-suburbs, the authors use a large and unique data set to discover the special patterns of opportunity in greater Philadelphia, a sprawling, complex metropolitan region consisting of more than 350 separate localities. With each community operating its own public services and competing to attract residents and businesses, the places people live offer them dramatically different opportunities. The book vividly portrays the region's uneven development-paying particular attention to differences in housing, employment and educational opportunities in different communities-and describes the actors who are working to promote greater regional cooperation. Surprisingly, local government officials are not prominent among those actors. Instead, a rich network of "third-sector" actors, represented by nonprofit organizations, quasi-governmental authorities and voluntary associations, is shaping a new form of regionalism.