Motivating staff for higher productivity -the Managing Think Tanks series
How to motivate staff ranked first in a survey conducted in 2001 by the Urban Institute. Think tanks in nine countries of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of...
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How to employ, retain and motivate staff
I would like to make some comments related to the point of how attract, retain and motivate think tanks’ staff, one of the major issues regarding the complex world of directors leading...
Organisational Assessment Tools
From previous discussion on organisational assessment on the EBPDN: Organizational Capacity Self-Assessment Tool Guidelines for Developing an Organizational Training Plan: This guide from the Academy...
A Framework for Improving Performance
A Framework for Improving Performance: This book offers a clear-cut methodology to diagnose institutional strengths and weakness at the onset of development activities. The inability of development agencies to...
Self-Assessment Toolbox
A Toolbox for Self-assessment: This guidebook presents an innovative and thoroughly tested model for organizational self-assessment. This guidebook presents an innovative and thoroughly tested model for...
What makes a successful policy research organisation in a developing country? Review of Ray Struyk’s latest paper
Ray Struyk has worked on think tanks for quite some time -and has great insights into what makes them work. But I wonder if these insights can (or should) be quantified....
Evaluating a think tank from the AEA365 (but should we?)
Johanna Morariu, Senior Associate with Innovation Network. Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org/) describes an approach to evaluating think tanks in the American...
Developing the capacity of your organisation: river diagram
A while ago I used this tool in a needs assessment exercise with organisations in a couple of programmes I was working in. Then last month I was asked by another programme about a tool to...
Goran’s recommendations on think tank rankings
Goran Buldioski offers another take on the rankings in his blog Goran's musings and some very interesting recommendations that I republish below: As someone who works...
Another year, another ranking of think tanks (and surprise surprise, Brookings is still the best)
I'll accept that James McGann's effort to identify and rank all the think tanks in the world has some positive outcomes. First of all, it has people talking about think...
On measuring the cost effectiveness of think tanks
I am no a fan of measuring the value of think tanks by looking at website hits and press mentions but that does not mean that these do not help to tell a part of the story. This press release...
on evaluating think tanks (for evaluative thinking)
This is the million dollar question: If on the main objectives of think tanks is to influence policy change, how can they prove they have, in fact, done it? This...