A compilation of 28 selected articles published in the Public Manager and the Career Executive Journal, official publications of the Career Executive Service Office.

MOB: A practical management theory -- Out of rhythm with birth control -- Doing the waltz with the boss man -- Meetings:Boon or bane? -- Profile in leadership:The Marcos way -- Wanted:Someone to read annual reports -- The speech that never was -- A monument to the model employee -- Lets smoke the peace pipe -- The unending odyssey of Diogenes (part I) -- The unending odyssey of Diogenes (part II) -- Reorganization: Too much ado about nothing? -- The control syndrome: Opportunity to play god -- Sloganeering: A piquant exercise in bureaucratic gimmickry -- Indecent exposure -- A matter of identification -- One for the books -- A tale of the tape -- Training: An offbeat appraisal -- Will somebody put on the brakes on privatization? -- Public perception: Justice applied or justice denied? -- Values education: A fallacy in modern times? -- The fastest gun alive -- The art of staying long in the service -- Planning : A Hazardous job -- At war with the bundy clock -- Pragmatism: The way to get along in the bureaucracy (part I) -- Pragmatism: The way to get along in the bureaucracy (part II).