Return to Article: OMB will allow agencies to set their own performance priorities
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Change we can believe in!
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Crazy Larry has a point, many managers will do no more than is required and focus on self interest. The better managers will continue to do what is right for the long-term success of their organizations. BTW having spent time in both the public and private sectors I have observed that both have good and bad managers, the only difference is the public sector is under a bigger microscope and the staff gets paid less. You only need to look around at the carnage from Wall Street to Detroit to California to see the effect of short-sighted, maximize this quarters earnings management.
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Forgive me, but what exactly is new in the budget guidance calling for agencies to propose performance priorities in their program execution initiatives? I can't recall any period when this was not part of the ongoing planning process, most especially since passage of the GPRA legislation in 1993. This was at the core of the last administration's President's Management Agenda (PMA), which was coordinated through OMB, and the associated "Proud to Be" planning process. It's become a cliche for each new administration to decry the benighted, ill-planned initiatives of those which preceded it - and then largely take ownership of much of the same said benighted initiatives and, with some name changes and cosmetic tweaking, grandly launch new programs that have many if not most of the features of those formerly in place. That time-honored approach has obviously been embraced by the "new kids on the block." Let's throttle back on the perfervid hype here, OK?
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The inmates have been given the keys to the asylum. The idea that federal managers will now run out and restructure organizations for efficiency as compared to the self interested resisitance to change exhibited in the past is beyond Alice in Wonderland. Senior management will direct that a few deck chairs be rearranged on the Titanic and then exclaim how marvelous the new ship looks, but that be the extent of it. Its really is too big and too important a ship to do this you know.
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