Management
5 Ways to Make Your Management Consultants More Effective
When you seek outside advice, the worst thing you can do is not listen.
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Multiple Companies Protest $1.6 Billion Pentagon Contract
The bid protestors contend the contract re-up is an improper sole-source request for cloud services that would give VMware an unfair advantage competing for DOD’s growing cloud demand.
Management
Love Coffee? You Should Probably Be Drinking Even More
Self-proclaimed caffeine addicts will be glad to hear the results of this new study.
Management
Beware of the Unpaid TSA Agent
The Obama administration's latest DHS shutdown warning focuses on the federal workers who won't get their paychecks.
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Moving Beyond the PDF Era: 3 Reasons to Embrace Financial Transparency
President Barack Obama's 2016 budget request reflected the values of data-driven government.
Defense
The Homeland Security Department Is Starting Shutdown Prep
More than 85 percent of the department’s employees would have to report to work without pay, based on 2013 plans.
Management
Health and Human Services Messed Up 800,000 Obamacare Tax Forms
Taxpayers received incorrect information about their subsidies.
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What Really Grinds Federal IT Managers’ Gears? Try the Hiring Process
The CIO Council has just wrapped up a survey of the IT workforce about its frustrations with the federal hiring process.
Management
Broadcasting Board’s New CEO: 'I Didn't Come Here to Cut'
Andrew Lack tells troubled staff he is aiming for growth.
Management
It Takes 8,700 Volunteers to Measure American Snowfall
Since 1890, the National Weather Service has relied on a network of volunteer observers.
Management
Why Good Managers Sometimes Make Bad Crisis Leaders
Standard problem-solving is better left to day-to-day operations.
Management
IRS Paid Identity Thieves $5.8 Billion in 2013, Blames Budget Cuts
Smaller budgets have prevented the agency from properly preventing identity thieves from collecting fraudulent tax returns.
Management
Scaled-Back DHS Headquarters Plan Would Squeeze 3,000 More People Into the Same Space
Flexible workplace strategies would help accommodate 17,000 employees in an area originally planned for 14,000.
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GSA Shops Around New Ways to Buy Tech
GSA's recent moves indicate the agency is searching for acquisition platforms that can keep up with new technology.
Management
A Healthy Menu Makeover for Food Trucks
An NIH-funded project aims to expand nutritious dining options in Los Angeles.
Defense
Most Americans Now Back Ground Troops Against ISIS
The Islamic State's brutality has dramatically shifted public opinion in the United States.
Management
Watchdog: Pentagon Could Learn from HHS on Curbing Medical Claims Fraud
Health and Human Services has a better system than Defense does for identifying improper payments, GAO says.
Management
VA and NASA Win Multiple Innovation Awards
Harvard’s Ash Center recognizes 13 federal programs in state-centered list.
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