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ICMA president urges public managers to 'stand in the arena,' stresses ethics and service
Summary
The speaker, who said they were becoming the president of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), used remarks at the association's business meeting to emphasize the duties of public managers: to provide certainty, uphold a professional code of ethics, and lead communities through crises.
The speaker, who said they were becoming the president of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), used remarks at the association's business meeting to emphasize the duties of public managers: to provide certainty, uphold a professional code of ethics, and lead communities through crises.
"Our lives are not defined by any one action," the speaker said, later quoting Theodore Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts. It is the man, it is the woman, it is the person in the arena, standing in the arena whose face is…
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