Management
For Leaders, Results Count, But It’s How You Get There That Matters
Effective leadership doesn’t have to be soft—it has to be effective.
Pay & Benefits
The Year of the Civil Servant
Never before have the roles of government workers taken on such significance. But there could be consequences to using their power to undermine the administration.
Management
To Transform Government, Start With the People
Managing talent for tomorrow’s needs goes to the heart of building the government workforce of the future.
Management
How to Cope When You're the Oldest Member of Your Team (or Just Feel That Way)
An exercise in vulnerability helped me understand my millennial coworkers.
Management
Puerto Rico’s Power Struggle
Amid a confusing tangle of overlapping authorities, shady contracts, and a push for privatization, nobody knows what the end of the island’s electricity and humanitarian crises will look like, or when it will come.
Management
Analysis: Why Americans Will Never Agree on Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Alaska and oil proponents are cheering a move to open up an ecologically sensitive part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling -- a position environment supporters can't abide.
Management
Why Federal Managers Need To Become More Informed Data Consumers
Data is a business asset that can advance agencies’ missions, or serve as a drag on effectiveness.
Management
There's a Trick To Getting Entitled Employees to Stop Complaining and Do Their Jobs
We're sorry to inform you that special treatment is necessary, according to a new study.
Management
Deterring Illegal Immigration by Separating Parents and Children
A proposal to stem the flow of migrants trekking to the southern border is revealing the limitations of deterrence policy.
Management
Post-Holiday Blues Can Teach You to Celebrate Reality
If your rosy hopes for the holidays have turned into blues, use this feeling to make every day a better experience.
Management
How Risk Is Transforming Government
Risk management is not simply a compliance exercise but goes to the core of agency mission delivery.
Management
Trump’s Category 5 Storm
What will hit first in 2018, the tsunami of a very big policy revolution or the legal waves that could submerge Trump’s presidency?
Management
Trump Escalates His Attacks Against FBI Officials
The president singled out FBI attorney James Baker and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe in a series of tweets.
Oversight
Transparency Groups Seek Probe of CDC ‘Gag Orders’
Office of Special Counsel asked to investigate potential violations of whistleblower protection laws.
Management
IRS Faces a ‘Crushing’ Workload to Implement the GOP’s Massive Tax Cut
After years of budget cuts, the agency must quickly calculate new pay tables, issue guidance for taxpayers, train staff and update its computers.
Management
Millennials, Wake Up! Algorithms Will Be Discriminating Against You In Just a Few Years
Facebook and other tech platforms allow companies to exclude the olds. As in, age 40 and above.
Management
One Major Factor Driving Government Transformation: Effectiveness
Improving efficiency is not enough; agencies must also deliver better outcomes.
Management
Congress Sends Trump a Measure Delaying the Shutdown Threat Until January
Continuing resolution would provide funding through Jan. 19.
Management