Tangherlini Tapped to Stay On at GSA
Video: Stephen Colbert on the Census Bureau
Lawmaker: Don't Furlough Weather Service Now
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senators Leery of Unfunded Tornado Relief
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
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Mark Micheli
Editor, Excellence in Government
Mark Micheli is the Special Projects Editor of Government Executive, editor of Excellence in Government Online and former Program Manager of the Government Business Council. Prior to his current roles, he worked on national security and emergency management issues with the US Treasury Department. He’s worked as a political research analyst, a correspondent for the Des Moines Register at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He studied at Drake University where he has degrees in Magazine Journalism, Political Science and History.
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March 25, 2013 The term “employee engagement” has been around for some time. Executive coaches, consultants and HR managers have been telling us for years that employees must be more than satisfied (for, as with a filling Thanksgiving dinner, satisfaction rarely yields productivity). In addition to satisfaction, we’re told, we must strive to ...
The 5 Best Management Tips of the Week
March 22, 2013 Welcome back to Excellence in Government's weekly round up of the best management tips from around the web. This week we tell you to stop hitting the snooze button (you’re only making it worse), that standing will get you through phone calls faster and that moving backwards might be more ...
The 5 Best Management Tips of the Week
March 15, 2013 Welcome to Excellence in Government's weekly round up of the best management tips from around the web. This week we feature a whole bunch of great ideas from the Harvard Business Review's "Management Tip of the Day" as well as a gem on the multi-faceted note taking/life organizing tool Evernote. ...
Obama's 'Jedi Mind Meld' Shatters His Nerd Credibility
March 1, 2013 It's a good thing Obama isn't running for office again: the president, who has been known to be Spock-like and nerd-courting, just lost the support of both Star Wars and Star Trek fans. Well, except maybe J.J. Abrams. In his sequester press conference today, the president made a joke about ...
Al Gore to Headline Excellence in Government in May
February 26, 2013 20 years ago next week, on March 3, 1993, President Bill Clinton created the National Performance Review (NPR) and selected Vice President Al Gore to be its leader. Together with 250 career civil servants, Gore and the NPR (later called the National Partnership for Reinventing Government) set about scrutinizing individual ...
Video: Steve Jobs and the Secret to a Great Presentation
February 26, 2013 Arthur Levinson, Apple’s chairman of the board, recently told Fortune, “I’m still not to the point where I walk into that board room and don’t miss Steve.” He’s not alone. Steve Jobs’ fans and devotees have been in mourning since his death in 2011. And why, in part, do people ...
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How Street Signs Are Made
February 25, 2013 Maybe you knew a kid growing up who stole street signs (or perhaps you were the kid doing the stealing). Did you ever wonder how those signs came to be? Turns out a lot of work goes into making each STOP, YIELD and X-ING sign you unquestioningly use each day. ...
Michelle Obama and Jimmy Fallon Show Off 'Evolution of Mom Dancing'
February 23, 2013 Michelle Obama and Jimmy Fallon have teamed up once again to promote the First Lady's Let's Move campaign. Adorned in "mom" drag, Fallon was joined by FLOTUS to film the "Evolution of Mom Dancing" (for the uninitiated, it's a parody of one of the most popular YouTube videos of all ...
President Obama Sends Kid President Message, Kid President Freaks Out
February 22, 2013 Some of you may remember Kid President from his amazing pep talk that we posted here last month. Well, in the interest of making this an awesome year, he’s back—with a special cameo from President Obama. In the video below, Kid President meets Big President, as Obama himself enlists the ...
