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Workforce Assessments: Fears and Facts

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Shelley Kirkpatrick

Assessments are more important than ever in the current government climate, which emphasizes accountability, transparency, and performance improvement. By providing actionable information that is needed to make wise and informed... More »

Managing Stimulus Funding Performance

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Vincent Gooden

In this new era of responsibility and accountability, the passage of economic stimulus fundingalong with demands for successful government performancepresents contemporary challenges for public managers. The challenges demand th... More »

The Obama Management Agenda: Five Steps Toward Transformation

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Alan Balutis

In the Spring 2008 Special Issue of The Public Manager, nearly 20 current and former government executives, academicians, and private and nonprofit sector leaders outlined a management agenda for the incoming 44th President of t... More »

Obamas Stealth Revolution: Quietly Reshaping the Way Government Works

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Donald Kettl

Quiet grumbling has surfaced among the inside-the-beltway crowdand not just over healthcare reform. People are asking, Where is Obamas big-bang reform of government? Government reform has been a staple of presi... More »

The Obama Technology Agenda: Open, Transparent, and Collaborative

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David McClure

The Obama Administrations technology agenda is game-changing, bringing collaboration, participation, and transparency to government in a big way. As more information makes its way onto the Internet, an increased level of focus a... More »