How Federal Executives Build Successful Long-Term Organizations

Federal executives pin success on building relationships, visibility, and credibility. They aim to strengthen their organizations for the long term.

What do executives do? How do they spend their time? What do they leave behind after their tenure? To answer these questions, we interviewed 24 top political executives in the Obama Administration during their first two years in office. Beginning in 2009, we interviewed them three times during their first two years, at the end of their first six m