Next, we present an extended example wherein we illustrate the frames in the context of a real department's change efforts.
His department's upcoming changes carry the caveat, however, that the Pentagon respects Congress' intent to "remain the arbiter of the ground combat exclusion policy".
Todd Stern, the US state department's climate change envoy, said the US-China deal could push other big polluters such as India, Japan, Brazil and Russia to come forward with their own post-2020 targets.
And although the gatekeeper analogy that I have used for HR holds true in the process of selecting applicants, once a candidate is scheduled to meet the company's managers, the HR department's goals change.
Eventually the governor eliminated the department's climate-change research.
The health department's actions may change the culture in drug firms and not for the better.
By the time Xie visited the US in March, the state department's new climate change envoy, Todd Stern, and his deputy, Jonathan Pershing, were also involved in the dialogue.
"Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty and conflict," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a statement announcing the US defense department's 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap.
Though few doubt the department's authority to change the state tax tables, critics in Congress question why it chose to do so now, after nearly a decade of leaving them untouched and at a time when state taxes are going up, not down.
In 2010, the department's name was changed to the Emergency Medicine Department (EMD).
The department's plans could change.
