Management
12 Tips for Designing an Open-Ended Project
How to approach large, complex challenges with no clear outcome.
Route Fifty
San Diego Mayor Dangles Big Monetary Rewards Before City Workers
Employees with the best cost-savings ideas could win up to $5,000.
Management
Are Agencies Stonewalling Inspectors General?
Sen. Grassley blasts administration after 47 watchdogs complain of agency roadblocks.
Management
The Working Parents’ Complete Guide to Working Out
The first step is deciding to make your personal health a non-negotiable.
Management
Teacher Uses Rush Limbaugh Book to Teach Civil War to 3rd Graders
If you meet an 8-year-old who thinks that slavery ended because of American exceptionalism this may be why.
Tech
Your Vote Counts: Help Honor Government’s Bold Innovators
Take a look at Nextgov’s Bold Award finalists and cast your ballot for the People’s Choice award.
Management
You Don’t Have to Be a Whiz Kid to Use Performance Metrics
A new guide helps managers analyze data to make better decisions.
Management
The Administration Is Shifting $405M to Deal With the Border Crisis. Is It Enough?
Money will be taken from other priorities including disaster relief, coast guard maintenance and TSA.
Management
Physicians, Heal Yourselves: Why VA Reform Must Come From Inside
The bill Congress passed last week is a good start, but it's not enough to turn the troubled bureaucracy around on its own.
Management
Men Die Young—And It’s Costing the U.S. $479 Billion a Year
The gender health disparity has persisted in the face of significant health gains around the world over the last 40 years.
Management
One Agency Paid an Employee $400K to Sit on the Sidelines
Archives IG retires after a two-year investigation finds he made offensive racial and sexual comments.
Management
The CDC Is Using Twitter to Explain Ebola to the Masses
The health organization is condensing warnings and guidelines into 140-character snippets in a Monday chat.
Management
One Habit Hack That Works: Hit the Showers
You don’t have to meditate like a monk to benefit from mindfulness.
Management
In Defense of Naked Joe Biden
The political press is tittering over the idea of the vice president skinny-dipping—and missing the real news in a forthcoming book on his Secret Service detail.
Management
Nixon Is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives On
Forty years after Watergate, presidential suspicion of reporters and attempts to keep the press at arm's length remain high.
Oversight
Senators Seek to Protect 15,000 Postal Jobs
Lawmakers, unions and managers disagree on service impacts of consolidations.
Management
Watson, the IBM Supercomputer, Might Replace the Loudmouth in Your Meetings
Watson was able to make further suggestions on companies to eliminate from the group of potential targets, essentially generating a shortlist.
Management
Former White House Press Secretary James Brady Passes Away
Brady became an advocate for gun control after being paralyzed in an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.
Management