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The Performance Imperative

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John Mullins

In his inaugural address, President Obama laid out a significant challenge to the managers of the federal government and the public and private sector partners that support government programs: The question we ... More »

Strategies to Improve Government Performance

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Jonathan Breul

Four senior U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officialswho are leading the Obama Administrations management effortsrecently discussed their game plan and top priorities at the 49th annual Interagency Resources Managemen... More »

Executive Coaching: Leadership Development in the Federal Government

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Richard Koonce

The federal government is suffering from a serious leadership deficit, and that deficit has only grown in recent years given the challenges facing the United States. Thats the major headline to emerge from a recent report publis... More »

Making Training Strategic

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Preston Brown

Merriam-Webster defines the term strategy as a careful plan or method; a clever stratagem; the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal. To make training more strategic within government agencies, it must b... More »

Integrated Learning in New York State Government

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Nancy Nee

From the moment students start elementary school all the way through college, they are taught concepts mainly through verbal instruction that teachers expect will later be applied in the real world. However, in school, teachers ... More »