Management

Viewpoint: Reverse Auctions Save Taxpayers Money

Each deal produces competition and pricing data for the buyer to use in future decision-making.

Management

The Path for Federal R&D Is Changing

How agencies can tap industry research budgets.

Management

The U.S. Supreme Court and American Empire

The U.S. Supreme Court struggles to stretch a Constitution written for 13 coastal states to encompass non-contiguous states, dependent nations, insular areas, and a commonwealth.

Management

The Whistleblower Who Won’t Go Away

Energy Department engineer Joe Carson is legal pen pal to numerous agencies.

Management

How Both Parties Can Fix Transportation

What if Republicans agreed to fund infrastructure in exchange for Democrats agreeing to cut red tape?

Management

Can Your Team Really Trust You?

If you make a mistake, what you do next makes all the difference.

Management

Government Transformation Boosters Want Another Commission

Advancing bills would build off of reform project led by former Controller David Walker.

Management

Why the Obama Presidential Library Is Bound To Fail

It will be beautiful, sure. But Chicago leaders are horse-trading with the cultural resources of poorer neighborhoods when it comes to location.

Management

How the White House Started Taking Trump Seriously

Over a few months, the Obama administration went from resisting the “temptation” to weigh in to calling out the Republican front-runner’s “fake hair.”

Management

How to Model and Encourage Well-Being

You, your staff and your organization benefit when balance is respected.

Management

Here's a Way to Get Some Mental Rest While You’re at Work

Rest is very difficult to understand, not least because it is experienced in so many different ways.

Management

VA Decides No Discipline Necessary For ‘Hit List’ Managers

Investigators determine some allegations already were being addressed; others resulted from personality conflicts, not ‘unlawful activity.’

Management

Clinton Has a Plan to Cure Alzheimer’s

Investing now may be a smart way to avoid the $200 billion the disease is estimated to cost the economy each year.

Management

A Federal Holiday Poem

Our annual ode to federal employees -- a tradition since 1998.