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New Development Strategy of the Głowno City. You have to move forward quickly so as not to fall back.
- 8 July 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
No Comments“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” said the Red Queen in “Alice in Wonderland” by L. Carroll, a lecturer of the Oxford University. And she was very right.
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Wrocław 2050 Development Strategy and my Spatial Development’ Students
- 5 July 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Research, teaching and scientific publications
Work is underway on the Wroclaw Development Strategy for 2050. This is a SUPER-IMPORTANT plan that will determine not only the directions of Wroclaw’s development, but will also influence the development of the Wroclaw metropolitan area and even the region.
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Jelenia Góra Development Strategy for 2024-2034. I supervised the quality of its construction process.
- 1 July 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
When in February 2023 I was finishing a two-day training on strategic governance of city development for the authorities and management of Miasto Jelenia Góra, the Mayor Jerzy Łużniak asked me: “Will you support us in building a new Strategy?”
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Talent or will? Can public strategic governance be learned?
- 21 June 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
Can public strategic governance be learned? Or do you have to be born with a talent for it?
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This is the 21st group of self-government officials that I trained on strategy as part of the MBA in Community Management.
- 29 May 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
We ALL need educated public authorities and officials, at all levels, from state to municipal. And it’s not about some education, but about good quality education, appropriate to the duties, real, modern, practical, solid and regularly updated. Private and professional life, prosperity, environment, space and safety of EACH OF US depend on it.
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Lectures in the city of subjective freedom at University of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- 23 May 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Lectures at foreign universities
“Manage the public affairs as if you had no private interests” and “Liberty can not be sold for all the gold of the world”. These two mottos, visible (to this day) on historical buildings of the authorities of the Republic of Ragusa (today’s Dubrovnik), together with excellent strategic governance, brought it centuries of prosperity and undisputed power.
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To the next level. At European Economic Congress, Poland 2024, I will present awards to the winners of TOP Municipal Investments.
- 23 April 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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
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If you care, you act seriously. How to organize good workshops for the commune’s development strategy?
- 20 February 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
One of the conditions for developing a good strategy is to listen to residents and entrepreneurs, especially leaders and decision-makers.
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Fate guides the creative, drags the passive. I review drafts of city development strategies.
- 26 January 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
I don’t just develop city development strategies. Mayors also let me review their projects. I’ve done two recently. The idea is that I find their imperfections, the authorities correct them and the strategy becomes better – for residents, business and the environment.
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Strategies of communes will be more *eco*. The draft of new regulations has just been submitted to the parliament.
- 10 January 2024
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
A draft amendment to the *Environment Protection Law* has just been submitted to the Polish Parliament, obliging the authorities of all 2477 communes to set not only social, economic and spatial strategic goals in their strategies, but also “climate and environmental” ones!