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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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Research meeting at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research meeting at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
29 January 2020 -
Self-government in Malta. Can we use their experiences in the development strategies of our communes?
As part of my travels in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments, I had the honor and pleasure of talking about Maltese local governments with the Acting President of Malta Prof. Frank Bezzina and with the Director General for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister of Malta, Natalino Attard
13 November 2023 -
Window Tilting Strategy: breathe, but skillfully, like in Câmara de Lobos in Madeira.
An interview with Leonel Correia da Silva, Mayor of Câmara de Lobos, one of the municipalities of Madeira, made me realize that the rapid influx of tourist traffic&investment can be a challenge even on remote, oceanic islands, as long as they are attractive to the world and sufficiently connected to it.
17 October 2024 -
The Award of the President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange for my student
My specialty is municipal strategies, but today I present a great financier, Ms Karina Wisłocka, my student
28 January 2022 -
First evaluation, then development strategy. Municipal Strategic Q&A #2
In my second article in the series “Municipal Strategic Q&A” I talk about the compulsory evaluation of the project of the development strategy of the commune.
23 November 2021 -
To the next level. At European Economic Congress, Poland 2024, I will present awards to the winners of TOP Municipal Investments.
During the European Economic Congress Katowice, Poland, I will have the honor of presenting awards to the winners of TOP Municipal Investments. This is a Poland’s nationwide competition for the most pro-development, bold, strategic investments of municipalities, counties and regions. We, as the Consultative Board, have already chosen our favorites, but your opinion also counts
23 April 2024 -
Lecture on the role of local governments in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the University of Unochapecó, Chapecó, Brazil
Lecture on the role of local governments in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the University of Unochapecó, Chapecó, Brazil
20 October 2019 -
Lecture on 90’s self-government’ reforms and strategic governance at The University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Lecture on 90’s self-government’ reforms and strategic governance at The University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
19 December 2019
