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• Seven Habits of Highly Successful Civic Projects
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Governments
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• A Beginner’s Guide to Facilitation
• The Temperament of Great Leaders
• Units of Civic Progress
• Leadership as “a Kind of Genius”
• How to Read a Flawed Book About Cities
• A Mayor’s Test for Good Decisions
• How to Manage a Crisis Before It Happens
• Lesson Seven: Process and Results
• Lesson Six: The Secret of Government Success
• The Magicians of Main Street
• Lesson Five: Vision and Demographics
• Why Blame Is the Death of Reform
• Lesson Four: The Art of the Compromise
• Lesson Three: Seeing the Unseen City Council
• Lesson Two: The Switching Yard of Change
• Lesson One: It’s All About Land Use
• How to Cover City Hall
• What Would FDR Do?
• The Art of the Ask
• The Opportunity: The Door to Civic Progress
• What’s New in Cities . . . and What’s Truly New
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• Dealing with the Cynics
• How Collaboration Happens
• The Coordinated Swarm
• The Seedbed of Civic Involvement
• Why the Goals of Citizen Engagement Are Not What You Think
• Selling Change by the Slice
• The Realistic But Hopeful Place
• Like/Unlike
• “What” Before “How”
• A Formula for Change
• Three Ps of Public Policy
• Rules for Reformers
• The Leader as Strategist and Persuader
• Civic Work and the Importance of Relationships
• The Difference Between Privatization and Magic
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• Why Patience Is a Virtue in Civic Work
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• Quality of Life as Community Glue
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• Decision Phase: Focused Persuasion
• Dealing with a Crisis
• Connecting the Phases: The Guiding Coalition
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• Discussion Phase: How Need, Relationships, and Ideas Begin the Change Process
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• What Makes a Solution Workable?
• A Map of Community Change
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• The Greatest Book About Cities Not Written by Jane Jacobs
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• Citizens Are Not the Same as Customers
• The Secrets of Perspective
• The Mayor as Manager
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