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Jumpstarting Performance Management
Last week, Senator Tom Carper held an important hearing based on a key finding from a Government Accountability Office (GAO) released last year. GAO’s 2008 report summarized a survey it conducted of...
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Dealing with Poor Performers
The issue of poor performers is a perennial topic. This topic seems to continually top the list of issues the President’s Management Council – comprised of deputy secretaries – wants to address by...
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Social Media Trends in Gov for 2010
I am not a tech-toy pioneer. It was two years before I logged onto my company’s instant message system because I thought it would create ADD symptoms (it didn’t). I just got a Blackberry a few weeks...
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Doing Big Things in Government
The release of a new book, “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon . . . ,” by Bill Eggers and John O’Leary, helped set the stage for the National Academy of Public Administration’s annual meeting that...
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HUD Transformation Initiative
As mentioned here a few days ago in blog entry on innovation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been given in fiscal year 2010, what seems to be a large pot of money and new...
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Final Four to lead the GAO?
It is looking more and more as if we may soon see a nominee for the position of Comptroller General. CQ staffer David Clarke is reporting that the Congress will soon forward President Obama four...
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Key National Indicators Are Now Real
Almost three years ago, I blogged on the need for a Key National Indicator System so we, as a nation, could track our progress using data, not diatribe. It’s happened. A provision buried on page...
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But will it work?
The Congress has passed and the President has signed the new health care reform legislation. But, will it work? This is the question that The Brookings Institution’s R. Kent Weaver raises in a new...
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“Desperately Seeking a Watchdog”
Today, in an editorial, the New York Times called for a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed leader of the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Noting that the interim Comptroller General,...
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Fiscal Summit and America’s Fiscal Challenges
Was it a parade of stars or a suicide mission? Last week I attended a one-day wonk fest on the country’s long term fiscal outlook, the “2010 Fiscal Summit.” It offered a rainy forecast, with possible...
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