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Developments with Intergovernmental Cooperation

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Elizabeth Kellar

In our article, Now Is the Time for Collaboration, we urged the new administration to seek honest dialogue and pragmatic solutions to the most important nondefense issues facing our nation: jobs, healthcare, education, environme... More »

Inherently Governmental Functions: Has the Debate Changed?

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Allan Burman

There has been a long-standing policy, codified in the U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), that functions intimately related to the public interest should only be performed by federal civil servants. Typically, these typ... More »

The Future Workforce: Gen Y Has Arrived

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Gerry Gingrich

Steve Monforto finally caught the ball! After attending Phillies games since he was three years old, he caught the ball on September 15, 2009. He promptly gave the ball to his young daughter, Emily, who was sitting next to him i... More »

Telework Tango: Take Two, From the Top

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Steve OKeeffe

At my college, ballroom dancing was the largest club on campus. But ask as I might, I could never find a single student whod admit even a passing interest in the rumba. Lets cha-cha forward some 20 years: Government managers who... More »

HR Strategies for Driving Change: Finding the Right Road

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W Frederick Thompson

The recent Nobel Prize gives us hope that managers, employees, and political leaders who work in the United States federal civil service can work together peacefully, productively, effectively, and efficiently. Im referring, of ... More »