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My son enjoying the appropriately placed water feature at the Louisville Zoo.

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Hey @Esri why not a GIS collector app for iPad? My students do all their data collection in the field with them and if they could be entering data directly into a geodatabase.

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Potential historic preservation project in Santa Barbara

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Fritz revises a site plan for CalPoly’s winning Bank of America Housing Challenge team

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Bizarre… a colleague just directed me to a website that archives a journal I wrote almost 15 years ago while studying at Oxford and having my eyes opened to the world.  My how I have changed… and yet am in many ways I am the same…

Public Agency Management Discussion

Students: How do we break away from typical community workshop? Guest Speaker: Meet at a bar, have some beers and talk about what your city could do differently.

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My son Fritz making his bike / ped dad proud this weekend!  You wouldn’t believe he is a ¼ Punjabi.

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Don’t let Bill Gates tell you how to design an organization… My old boss, Capt. Mike Valerio, Ed.D., on Powerpoint smartart. No offense Mr. Gates.  You are exceedingly brilliant, but just happen to have created a bit a piece of technology that has probably become a bit of a managerial crutch. 

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Great reminder for my management students from Steven Covey; important to keep strategic focus / long-term vision while dealing with the day-to-day / people issues of running an organization.