'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
Analysis: The buck stops with program managers
November 5, 2010 "Program managers who view themselves as mere agents for the execution of program costs, schedule and performance may be self-limiting. Rather, every PM should assume the role of chief executive officer of his or her entrepreneurial 'corporation' and use the tools of upper-echelon leaders to manage programs with greater accountability ...
Role Model
October 1, 2009 President Obama works side by side with agency leaders to get results. Many presidents have talked about the need to improve executive branch performance, but President Obama is the first to assume personal responsibility for doing so. Without that impetus from the chief executive officer of the executive branch, there ...
Role Model
July 29, 2009 Although many presidents have talked about the need to improve executive branch performance, President Obama is the first to assume personal leadership responsibility for doing so. Without that impetus from the chief executive officer of the executive branch, there is unlikely to be the kind of change many have talked ...
Cleaning Up Their Act
July 1, 2005 What happens when leaders take the time to improve performance. Federal employees usually sign on with government agencies with the good-faith goal of serving the public. In return, the public wants and deserves high performance from civil servants. Yet both sides often feel frustrated by lack of focus and missed ...
The New World Appointee
December 1, 2000 t is long past time for the President to look at more than loyalty, public policy expertise and willingness to be a team player when choosing department secretaries, deputy secretaries and heads of agencies. As the nation faces another change in leadership-perhaps with trepidation, perhaps with eager anticipation-it is important ...
Management<br /> The Power of Partnerships<br /><i>Expanding labor-management partnerships beyond the traditional issues.</i>
November 1, 2000 n the past seven years, some agencies have ignored President Clinton's 1993 executive order to create labor-management partnerships. Others have created partnership councils, but limited their reach to traditional labor-management issues such as working conditions and employee grievances. But the Health and Human Services Department recently has expanded its partnership ...
Oversight Needs Overhaul
August 1, 2000 letters@govexec.com ould doubling the one-year budget cycle to two improve government efficiency? That question has won congressional and public attention for legislation long nurtured by Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., to create a two-year cycle. Supporters of biennial budgeting propose focusing on the budget in the first year of a cycle ...
Giving Up the Good Fight
April 1, 2000 letters@govexec.com raditional labor-management relations amount to a zero-sum game: Employees gain only what the unions wrest from management's clenched hand. This adversarial approach has made federal unions indispensable. In the federal government, unions' aggressive opposition to management and restrictions on management interference in union elections have paved the way for ...
Survey Provides Map to Better Service
February 1, 2000 o one looking for a job in customer service would say to a prospective employer, "I could do the job as well as a federal employee," unless he wanted to be the butt of a joke. But now it seems federal employees are having the last laugh. In fact, the ...
Realizing Reform
January 1, 2000 n 1993, Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review called for reform of the civil service laws to give agency heads more discretion to hire, fire, pay and evaluate employees. But in the seven years since, there has been no agreement on the scope or the substance of comprehensive civil ...
