I've been ranked 5th out of 22,130 scholars in the world in #PublicAdministration, making me highest ranked Belgian, highest ranked working in Asia & highest ranked youngest scholar. All rankings flawed, but cool to be on this list with these giants. See: scholargps.com/specialties/28…

*Grant Success* - happy to announce that our proposal on neurological effects of administrative burden has been funded by HK's General Research Fund! Looking forward to working with Don Moynihan, Walker & Zhen CityULaMP. Going full neuro (& likely a bit mad scientist) on this one...

.Bert George earns the #5 position for Most Highly Ranked Scholar on ScholarGPS! Proud to have Professor George as an upcoming Center author! buff.ly/45I40f4 CityU Hong Kong Public Management Review

Google Scholar rankings in Public Policy & Administration out! Public Management Review ranked 3d. With PAR 2d & GIQ 1st. PA Journal also back in top five. Two policy journals in top 10, namely Policy & Society Journal at 7 & PSJ at 9. JPART at 6. Welcome in top 10 to IJPA!

2024 has been a bloody good year for our family. My wife got her first top 15% article in her tenure track, an ECS grant and now her second top 15%! So proud of her. All as sole author. Must read for anyone interested in machine learning and heritage. mdpi.com/2571-9408/7/7/…

Sixth edition of "Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations" now available for pre-ordering! For 1st time, John Bryson has a co-author, namely me😀. We've spent > 2 years on update, with new cases, approaches, research. A dream come true... wiley.com/en-us/Strategi…

Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement. New book (buff.ly/4bH6njE) by Center authors John Bryson Humphrey School and Bert George CityU Hong Kong. Read report: buff.ly/3vEvX67

"NPM reconsidered: towards the study of enduring forms of NPM" (with S. Dan and D. Spacek) tandfonline.com…/10.1080/14719037.2024.2375561

📢I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students for 2025 intake. Full funding for 4 years. Students interested in strategic planning, strategic management, public management, behavioral & brain science applied to public administration & with excellent CVs are very welcome. Join an awesome team

It's going to be a long day, hopefully! Watching Belgian judoka Matthias Casse on his run for olympic gold! #Paris2024 - come on Matthias Judo Belgium ! IPPON 🏅, we're supporting you from Hong Kong. What a beautiful sport to which I owe a lot.

"Communities, regions, and nations increasingly face boundarycrossing challenges that require the efforts of many organizations and groups to address them effectively." Idaho's criminal justice & child protection systems are two such examples. #eval #idleg NAPA Idaho OPE

Unboxing moment! SP6 has arrived in Hong Kong & the world. One of the most beautiful & humbling moments in my career. Thanks to all for your support, Wiley, students, colleagues, practitioners, family, & John the master strategist. Available via... wiley.com/en-us/Strategi…

Well this is not something that’ll happen every day… . Our book is the “top new release” in the nonprofit category of Amazon, meaning it ranks first in sales numbers. Not too bad!

26(9) is a special issue: "The New Public Management: Dead or still alive and co-existing? State of play at 40+", edited by Sorin Dan, Per Lægreid & David Špaček - all currently free or open access (((Germà Bel))) XY CIS + Gen-Tap Abiha Zahra Michal Placek Jesse Hajer Tom S. Karlsson tandfonline.com/toc/rpxm20/26/…

All metrics are relative, but I do appreciate ResearchGate's weekly metrics - especially when they show I'm the 2d most read scholar from CityU Hong Kong 😉. And I'm particularly pleased to see just how international my audience is, with lots of engagement from the #GlobalSouth.

💡New article in PAR💡been brewing for some time! One of first cross-country studies on #strategicplanning, data from #Finland, #Flanders & #Norway. Core finding: Design choices impact attitudes to strategic planning & strategic plans! Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Giving two talks today! A pre-recorded video to present Public Management Review at #egpa2024. And an online talk ZHAW's summer school about literature reviews based on our PAR editorial & special issue. Fantastic to see that editorial has > 4,400 reads already! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Hahaha that’s such a cool picture 🤩. And all could see - in full screen - the effect of Hongkong summer on my hair! Thanks for the opportunity to discuss Public Management Review at #EGPA2024 International Institute of Administrative Sciences