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Bridging the Skills Gap Part I

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Pat Galagan

Recent economic challenges have forced public- and private-sector organizations to execute their strategies with more precision than ever before and to do it with fewer resourcesespecially people. The elimination of large number... 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 »

Change Is in the Wind for HR Management

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Stephen Benowitz

Consider the old adage, What goes around, comes around. Often, this refers to political appointees who return to government when their party is elected. The other interpretation is that appointees bring back policies that were d... More »

Think Differently: Update Your Stats to Unlock Outcomes

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Daniel Forrester

It has been more than 15 years since the CompStat management model was first introduced by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), sparking a movement that has profoundly affected public administration. CompStat has been suc... More »

New Imperatives for Public Managers

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Michael Stahl

When people hear the term public servant, they think of presidents, governors, legislators, cabinet secretaries, agency directorsthe political officials featured on news broadcasts, on political talk shows, and in newspapers. Th... More »