Return to Article: IRS commissioner: Agencies have too many management chiefs
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The reason for having loads of chiefs in management is very simple. CFO accountants became the big chief administrative officers, pushed everyone else away from the table and really for the most part don't have the management tools to run effective offices. So what would normally be called an office director, a director of personnel, or director of procurement or director of IT services, now becomes a chief whatever. It is not the name that matters-- it is the fact that the organizations don't work well with CFOs at the helm and until people figure out that professional managers should be the COOs of agencies- nothing will change.
HR Specialist
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Say no more. The first two paragraphs say it all. Some of these folks civilian and military are useless and you do not have to be a Rhodes Scholar to realize that some do not have a function at all. They have something on somebody, and/or no one wants them because their reputation is well known by all!
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This conclusion is spot on and a great lesson in the rule of unintended consequences. Although very well intentioned, the addition of CFOs and CIOs has backfired (as well as IGs and all the rest). It has hindered modernization, added a layer of management and fragmented authority.
For example, having both CFOs and CIOs has meant that you have two actors in many automation processes - not one. E-travel, forms automation, etc. have all been slowed by the lack of unified command.
And all those special projects inevitably sap the focus of agencies from what ostensibly is their core mission.
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Mr. Everson should consider himself fortunate. Government Executive usually censors me when I make statements such as the government being top heavy with chiefs. I am surprised that they didn't turn off his microphone. It's a shame that they have become afraid of people's opinions. It takes away from their credibility.
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