WHITE HOUSE SEMINARS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

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• Document Release Date: October 2, 2008
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• Publication Date: March 2, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CABINET AFFAIRS STAFFING MEMORANDUM
Date: 3/2/84 Number: 168930CA Due By: 3/15/84
Subject: White House Seminars in Public Management
Vice President
State
Treasury
Defense
Attorney General
Interior
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
HHS
HUD
Transportation
Energy
Education
Counsellor
GSA
EPA
OPM
VA
SBA
CEA
CEQ
OSTP
AID
Baker
Deaver
Darman (For WH Staffing)
Jenkins
Mc Farlane
Svahn
CCCT/Gunn
CCEA/Porter
CCFA/
CCHR/Simmons
CCLP/Uhlmann
CCMA/Bledsoe
CCNRE/
Please review the attached memorandum and provide us with
your nominees by March 15, 1984. C~,~-^l
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Assistant to the President ^ Tom Gibson C] Larry Herbolshe, mer
for Cabinet Affairs Associate Director
456-2823 Office of Cabinet Affairs
456-2800
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February 29, 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL CABINET MEMBERSD SELECTED AGENCY HEADS
FROM: CRAIG L. FULLER
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SUBJECT: White House Seminars in Public Management
All of us want to help the President's appointees in every way
we can to handle successfully their heavy responsibilities.
One step we in the White House have taken toward that end is
to design a series of seminars dealing with the problems and
skills of managing Federal agencies. To make it feasible for
busy executives to attend, we run these seminars on weekends
in the Executive Office.
The appointees who have participated in past seminars have
found them very useful. Both the case discussions, which are
led by Harvard faculty, and the interaction with fellow
appointees are thought-provoking and helpful. The nature and
format of these seminars is further outlined in the attached
paper.
Our next two seminars will be held April 12 to 14 and may 31
to June 2. We request that you nominate two appointees for
each of these seminars. We suggest that you give first
consideration to your recent PAS-level appointees, since the
seminars obviously are of most value to new appointees.
We would appreciate receiving the names of your nominees for
the April seminar by March 15, and the names for the second
seminar by May 1. Edward Preston of my staff (456-2800) will
answer any questions concerning the seminars.
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Seminars in Public Management
In an effort to refine the methods and skills of Presidential
appointees faced with complex and often controversial programs,
the White House and OMB are collaborating with Harvard's School
of Government on a series of short seminars designed to help
subcabinet officials confront management problems common to the
Federal Departments and Agencies. Major topics are as follows:
o how to deal effectively with the environment external
to the agency (Congress, media, interest groups etc.);
o methods used to organize and integrate internal processes
(planning, budgeting, procurement, etc.) to achieve
goals efficiently; and
o formulation of program implementation strategies.
The seminars use the case study method which Harvard pioneered.
Harvard faculty members lead discussions of cases chosen to
illuminate typical problems, including several which deal with
current problems and objectives. The Harvard input is supple-
mented by discussions of this Administration's objectives and
policies led by senior White House and Cabinet officials.
Typically, the sessions begin late on a Thursday afternoon with
speakers from such White House offices as Legislative Affairs and
the Press Office. Next, there is a reception in the Roosevelt
Room with Edwin Meese III as the principal speaker. Dinner in the
White House Mess closes the first day. The Friday sessions begin
about 8:30 a.m and end about 5:00 p.m. Most of the day is spent
on case study discussions led by Harvard faculty, plus a discus-
sion of White House processes for identifying and resolving
policy issues. The Saturday sessions begin about 8:30 a.m. and
end about 1:00 or 2:00 p.m. These are a mixture of case study
discussions, and sessions on White House operations and on issues
of current concern. The latter are led by such speakers as the
Assistant to the President for Cabinet Affairs.
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