Jay KaufmanJun 23, 20203 min readAmerica's Uncivil WarEven as a global pandemic is taking hundreds of thousands of lives and bringing life as we know it to a near halt, we have been shaken to...
Jay KaufmanJun 11, 20203 min readA New Public EducationTwo centuries ago, while serving in the Massachusetts legislature, Horace Mann invented universal mandatory public education to answer...
Jay KaufmanMay 7, 20202 min readMourning and MorningI watched The Lincoln Project’s "Mourning in America" video this morning and it left me deeply sad, with a healthy dose of determination....
Jay KaufmanMar 11, 20201 min readCovid-19 and LeadershipThere's so much coming at us about Covid-19 and it is hard to know what is legit and what's not. Here's what I do know. We all have to...
Jay KaufmanJan 23, 20201 min readA Challenging MomentIf ever there were a time to focus on better public sector leadership, this is it! Our democratic institutions and our values are being...
Jay KaufmanJan 12, 20201 min readA newly-discovered ancient teaching from the Hawaiian Huna traditionMAKIA – Energy flows where attention goes. This wise, old adage is one of the keys to leadership. Too often we spend time and energy on...
Jay KaufmanJul 5, 20192 min readReflections on political leadershipFor all the Declaration of Independence’s “self-evident” truths, the Declaration was in 1776 as it is today more aspirational than...
Jay KaufmanFeb 9, 20191 min readWise wordsJocelyn Lippert Alt offers three new corollaries to John Shedd's sage warning that "a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships...