Management
How to Respond to the President’s Management Agenda
Agencies should take a deliberate approach to this new opportunity.
Management
Be Realistic About Your Successes and Failures
It’s far too easy to take credit for success and blame others for failure.
Management
Judge Rules Commerce Cannot Charge Exorbitant Fees to Access Immigration Data
The department had been trying to charge $16,770 for the most recent year of data.
Management
Analysis: These Are The VA’s 3 Main Problems – Leadership Isn’t One Of Them
Privatization will aggravate, not solve VA's problems.
Management
Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.
Management
VA’s Interim Leadership Faces Legitimacy Questions
Whether former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin was fired or quit has big implications for the Trump administration—and for veterans.
Management
What Trump Is Getting Wrong About the Postal Service and Amazon
The president appears to have his facts wrong.
Management
Could Trump Actually Use Military Funding for His Border Wall?
The president would have to overcome obstacles in Congress, and perhaps even legal challenges, to use Department of Defense resources on construction.
Management
The U.S. Just Found a New Way to Delay Visa Applications
Previous social-media vetting targeted a sliver of travelers to the U.S.—about 65,000. The new measures would cover nearly 15 million people.
Management
What Happens When Networking Replaces Friendship
The erosion of friendship by friendly networking is no longer just for the rich and powerful.
Management
One Of The World's Biggest Companies Found The Secret To Better Meetings: A Wooden Box
One executive was so impressed he instituted a box for his family dinners.
Management
Irreconcilable Differences Mark Evaluations of EPA’s Performance
Agency’s self-review cites record-high enforcement; advocacy group blasts enforcement nosedive.
Management
Lead, Follow or Get Out Of The Way
This isn’t to say that you can’t have opinions and even share them, but there is a time and a place and limit for everything.
Management
Analysis: The Doctor Who Suddenly Got 9 Million Patients
For a position that demands high-level policy expertise, President Trump appointed his personal physician, Ronny Jackson.
Management
The Patriot Missile Interceptor Doesn’t Work, But Raytheon Still Makes Billions
Have the U.S. and its allies spent bought a lemon?
Management
Lawmakers, Veterans Groups and Former Officials Worry VA Nominee Is Not 'Up to the Job'
Stakeholders lament Shulkin's firing and ponder whether Ronny Jackson has the requisite management experience to lead VA.
Management
Appointee Watch: Another Cabinet Post Shuffle
Trump names nominees to ambassadorships, Treasury amid leadership shake-ups.
Management
Why President Trump Is Going It Alone on Infrastructure
With legislative action in doubt, the administration is trying to cut down on projects’ bureaucratic delays—the likes of which the president decried as “a massive self-inflicted wound” on the country.
Management
Baseball Players Show That People Will Give Up Money To Work With Great Colleagues
Great coworkers are worth a little sacrifice.
Management