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Managing in a Fishbowl: Closing Federal Leadership Gaps

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Ellen Van Velsor

A new CCL study offers insight into the leadership development needs of government leaders and offers some on-the job solutions to help enhance the skills of current leaders and create leaders for tomorrow. Do you put your staff at ease or do you push them... More »

Reviewing What Works: Evaluating Programs and Tax Expenditures

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Jitinder Kohli

Center for American Progress has developed a performance review process that helps the government to undertake a systematic review of spending programs and tax expenditures. Candidate Barack Obama promised that if elected president he would go through... More »

Taking Care of Business: The VA Commits to Training

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Richard Garrison

Training initiative engages employees to review fundamentals in every line of operation, rids the agency of contract over-runs and high-risk programs, and improves staff skill levels. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faces an increasingl... More »

State Fiscal Panels Cant Cure the Budget Blues

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Jason Juffras

Policymakers in 19 states have created blue-ribbon commissions to help stabilize finances. While useful, they cannot rescue us from the budget crisis July 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year for most states, marks a brief milestone for governors and s... More »

Urgent: Mastering Information Overload in Government by Pete Marksteiner

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Pete Marksteiner

Federal workers are overwhelmed by the volume of information at their disposal and the increasing expectation that they manage it with great dispatch. In 1974 when scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency started connecting computers... More »