Management
Google Says The Key to Good Teamwork is Being Nice
The search giant now describes psychological safety as the most important factor to building a successful team.
Management
OPM Tries to Make Senior Executive Hiring Less Annoying For Everybody
To comply with President Obama’s executive order, agencies should consider leaning more on applicants' resumes, and moving away from lengthy written statements.
Management
Defense Accountability: A Call to Action
Concerns about declining resources, maintaining a skilled workforce and auditability have reached a tipping point.
Management
Agency Collaboration Could Make or Break Next Presidential Administration
Report urges transition teams to get the government to operate as a single entity.
Nextgov
Doxed ISIS Fighters, Leaked Complaints about Uber Rapes and 2.2M Cancer Patients Exposed to ID Theft
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Oversight
American Conservatives Face a Difficult Choice in 2016
They can back Trump, or run a candidate of their own—but either way, they’ll bring this era of American politics to a close.
Management
John Kasich’s Home-Field Advantage
The Ohio Republican Party is treating Kasich’s presidential bid like a “mini-gubernatorial campaign.”
Management
Trump Wants to Make the Federal Government Huge Again
The Republican front-runner is tapping the resentments of white working-class voters—and promising to use federal power to address them.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Trump Rally or Fury Road?
After violence erupts in Chicago, late-night hosts suggest this was all inevitable.
Nextgov
Dems Question Secret Service’s 'Monitoring' of Threats Involving Trump Events
One way the Secret Service keeps tabs on threats, in general, is by tracking social media.
Nextgov
Obama to Techies: Uncle Sam Needs You
"The reason I'm here, really, is to recruit all of you,” Obama told the crowd at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.
State and Local Weekend Digest: Hawaii’s Girl Scout Cookie Tax; Ala. Prison Riot Video
Also in our news roundup: Tulsa’s music dreams; testing for toxins in Flint’s dogs; and Rhode Island toll bridge scofflaws.
Is Public Corruption Becoming More or Less Common in the U.S.?
A recently published academic study takes a look at that.
Management
A Stupendous Government Satellite Animation of the Solar Eclipse
“I am not aware of anybody ever capturing the full eclipse in one set of images or video,” says a NASA scientist.
Management
Obama Looks to Outsiders to Fix “Big and Bloated” Government
Citizens must step in to help agencies address key challenges, president says.
Oversight
Democratic Lawmakers Accuse IGs of Bias in Clinton Email Probe
State and Intel Community watchdogs are accused of bias or inaccuracies.
Management
7 Leadership Principles from Women in National Security
Advice from trailblazing military leaders.
News
At Republican Debate, Firing Feds Takes Center Stage
"I will find them and I will fire them," Cruz says of federal workers he doesn't like.
Management
The Authentic Alliance of Donald Trump and Ben Carson
Former rivals find common ground by suggesting that in politics, people and events aren’t always what they seem.
Oversight