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'Personal Kanban:' A Life-Changing Time-Management System That Explodes the Myth of Multitasking
Only 3% of the population are "supertaskers" The rest of us just pretend to be.
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Departure of White House Communications Director Could Signal Wider Shakeup
Mike Dubke has resigned from his position.
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Trump's Travel Ban Is Headed for a Supreme Court Showdown
Will the justices, many of whom worked in the executive branch, hold the president’s words against him?
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Politics is Distracting American Workers and May Be Killing U.S. Productivity
There is a real, measurable cost to the drumbeat of disturbing news coming out of Washington.
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Weather Service Staff Shortages Have Led to Burnout Among Employees
Agency is working on ways to hire meteorologists faster after 2013 hiring freeze created a backlog.
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Agencies Largely Maintain Small-Business Contracting Scores
Women-owned businesses landed fewer awards than the previous year.
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Trump Budget Continues Homeland Security Move to St. Elizabeths
Despite some lawmaker criticism of cost overruns, HQ consolidation on track.
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Congress is Sending Mixed Messages on Defense Procurement
The landscape is littered with the remains of scores of previous reform efforts.
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Older Americans Are More Millennial Than Millennials
To understand both changes to the workforce and changing attitudes toward work, don’t watch young people. Watch their parents (and uncles, aunts, and grandparents).
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Boosting Job-Creating Foreign Investment in the U.S.
In 2014, 6.4 million Americans were employed by U.S. subsidiaries of foreign firms.
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Appointee Watch: Nominees for Personnel Management, Overseas Posts and More
A Treasury nominee withdraws from consideration.
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Trump Budget’s Blessing of Program Evidence Could Cut Two Ways
Program evaluation specialists welcome effort but some worry it could simply be used to justify cuts.
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Risk and Trump’s Reorganization Order
The mandate for reform represents an opportunity for agency leaders.
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Jeff Sessions's Agenda for Justice's Civil-Rights Division
The Trump administration's budget envisions staff reductions and a diminished focus on traditional civil-rights enforcement.
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Federal Managers Groups Largely Support Trump OPM Pick
Union representative is a lot more wary of Nesterczuk, who helped design a failed performance-based pay system at Defense.
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The Known Unknowns of the Russia Investigation
Top Russian officials reportedly discussed reaching out to Trump campaign adviser Michael Flynn last summer as part of Moscow’s interference campaign. Did they follow through?
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Boeing Protests Air Force’s Jamming-Plane Decision, Alleging Conflict of Interest
Company officials say the decision to let L3 pick the aircraft means a choice has already been made.
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11 Major Agency Reforms in Trump’s Budget
Some proposals could see the light of day, even if the overall budget is DOA.
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State Department Student Interns Battle a Frustrating Security Clearance Process
Some applicants wait months for even an interim clearance.
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