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Embrace Change and Mind the Mission

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The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals are presented annually by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in the federal civil service. Among the awards is the Management Excellence Medal, which recognizes a federal emplo... More »

Leaders: Own Your Alligator Brain

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Sandra Palmer

As a leader, your behavior affects the physical health of your direct reports, for better or for worse, just as your supervisor's affects yours. How is this possible? What can you do about it? More »

Relocation Programs Deliver Benefits for Employees and Agencies

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Jenny Mattingley

A little-discussed program that has big implications for those employees who use it also could be an area of cost-savings for agencies. Relocation programs used by federal agencies to provide the mechanics of geographic reassignments are seen as a procurement function a... More »

The Limitations of Applying Private-Sector Models to Federal Operations

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Tim Winchell

Total quality initiatives in the early 1990s, Vice President Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government, and President G.W. Bush's President's Management Agenda each attempted to incorporate private-sector management best practices into federal operations. N... More »

VA Taps into New and Innovative Solutions

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Paula Ketter

The Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation (VACI) identifies, prioritizes, funds, tests, and deploys the most promising solutions to VA's most important challenges. The VACI team is led by Jonah J. Czerwinski, who also serves as senior advisor to the Secretary of Vetera... More »