'Back-Door' Base Closures
Biden Talks Loss With Fallen Troops' Families
Neely Out at GSA
More USPS Buyouts
Gimme My Discount! Deals for Feds
Buyout Watch: Who's Offering What
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Heading for Disaster
February 1, 2009 The dangers of building a new social contract between government and citizens by making it up as we go along. In a couple of weeks last September, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department made more lightning- fast decisions, involving more government money, than at any time in the nation's history. ...
Fixing the Future
January 16, 2008 With a new administration taking office a year from now, it's time to peer ahead at its fundamental dilemma: It will face problems that can't be ignored, and it won't have enough tools to solve them. Some efforts will continue in some form-such as the Bush administration's performance management push. ...
Fixing the Future
January 1, 2008 The next president must be ready to take on inescapable management problems. With a new administration taking office a year from now, it's time to peer ahead at its fundamental dilemma: It will face problems that can't be ignored, and it won't have enough tools to solve them. Some efforts ...
In Harm's Way
April 1, 2006 Government must act now to thwart the economic and human toll of the next disaster. New Orleanians are counting down the days to the start of hurricane season-June 1-the way merchants count the shopping days left before Christmas. In neither case is there a thinkable alternative to being ready. When ...
What's Next
January 1, 2001 The world and the country are changing, and the federal government had better figure out how to catch up. s George W. Bush measures furniture for the Oval Office and takes the reins of power in Washington, he faces a stark but largely unrecognized reality: The federal government's role has ...
Relentless Reinvention
January 1, 2000 he 2000 presidential election sharply focuses two separate questions on the Clinton administration's "reinventing government" campaign. If Al Gore becomes President, what will the next phase of reinventing government look like? If someone else wins-Bill Bradley, George W. Bush, John McCain or a dark horse-what will become of reinventing government? ...
Revamping Reinvention
April 1, 1998 n its fifth anniversary, the National Performance Review is changing its name, vision and focus. But can the realignment revitalize reinvention? The NPR has many answers to government's management problems, but so far it has failed to grasp the real questions. Our special report includes the following sections: Revamping Reinvention ...
Revamping Reinvention
April 1, 1998 Faith Healers, By Brian Friel April 1998 SPECIAL SECTION Revamping Reinvention On its fifth anniversary, the National Performance Review is changing its name, vision and focus. By Anne Laurent alaurent@govexec.com overnment reinventors have been feeling disenchanted over the last year. Customers have been embraced, regulations have been reduced, staffing has ...
