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A good municipal development strategy. The Daily Legal Gazette is sounding the alarm, and in Wasilków they already know how it is done.
Simply adopting a commune development strategy in compliance with legal requirements is not enough in Poland. The strategy must be substantively sound, and it must be preceded by a good diagnosis. Otherwise, there will be many problems…
27 February 2026 -
On municipalities’ development strategies with professionals. Training for the Silesian Association of Municipalities and Counties
Training for the Silesian Association of Municipalities and Counties. Its participants were directors, heads of departments, and managers from a dozen or so offices of Silesian city administrations responsible for preparing these strategies and for spatial planning.
14 February 2026 -
Non-Self-Governing Municipalities, a King, Parliaments, and Hereditary Rulers: Lectures at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
This time I lectured in Malaysia, at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. My open lecture on local government and state authorities in Poland was supposed to last an hour and a half, but it ran for three hours, because there were so many questions and so much discussion with the students.
22 December 2025 -
Is the Silicon Shield Strategy Enough? Lectures at National Taiwan University
Recently, I lectured at National Taiwan University on Polish public strategies. While talking with professors and students and visiting state-of-the-art laboratories, I also learned about Taiwanese strategies.
7 December 2025 -
Antifragility Strategy at Midnight: The True Sources of Poland’s Economic Success
The Brazilian university Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais asked me to give an online seminar for PhD students and professors entitled ‘Entrepreneurship and Local Development – the Example of Wrocław and the EU’
3 December 2025 -
Strategy starting from kindergarten: Talks in kindergartens and primary schools in the city of Głowno.
If you’re planning for a year – sow grain.
If you’re planning for ten years – plant trees. If you’re planning for a hundred years – educate children.14 November 2025 -
Comprehensive Strategy of the Municipal Civil Protection Service: Lectures at the University of the Azores
After my lectures at University of the Azores, I barely got out ahead of Hurricane Gabrielle, while the islands were bracing for the worst. How does it work there?
27 October 2025 -
Be careful what you wish for… Lectures at the University of Madeira and the strategy of sustainable-by-force tourism
While recently lecturing at The University of Madeira on development strategies for Polish municipalities, I said that many of them are eager to grow tourism. The students replied that on their island that’s no longer the case everywhere and that most of them feel quite the opposite.
17 October 2025
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Talent or will? Can public strategic governance be learned?
Can public strategic governance be learned? Or do you have to be born with a talent for it?
21 June 2024 -
Defense of the self-government’ MA thesis – important for the commune development strategy, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
While visiting the University of Kentucky, I participated in the defense of an interesting self-government’ master’s thesis. Its author, Ms Lindsay Vance examined how the inhabitants’ place attachment influences attitudes to the tourism development. In other words, she checked whether if someone really likes area, then wants to “sell” it to tourists or rather not.
21 September 2022 -
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Strategic successes through good vision and persistence.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt once said, and although not all the famous sayings of US presidents are inspiring, especially today, this one is worth remembering and thinking about.
10 March 2025 -
Training on strategy for the authorities and management of the City of Glowno – the birthplace of Citroën
I conduct each training for the authorities on strategic management in a different way.
21 January 2022 -
Training on local development strategic governance for the authorities and top management of the Syców Commune
Training on local development strategic governance for the authorities and top management of the Syców Commune
6 November 2019 -
Mission: DEVELOPMENT. Another training on strategy – this time for the authorities of the Pakosc Commune.
Training on the construction and implementation of the development strategy of communes, i.e. on the strategic governence of the development of communes, is the most important training for their authorities.
30 August 2024 -
Training for the authorities and top management of municipalities on the strategies. New regulations, new opportunities and challenges.
Training for the authorities and top management of municipalities on the strategies. New regulations, new opportunities and challenges.
29 May 2021 -
Lectures on Polish GDP & municipalities at the University of Messina, Messina, Sicily, Italy.
Lectures on Polish GDP & municipalities at the University of Messina, Messina, Sicily, Italy.
16 October 2019
