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Why Defense Can’t Buy Cyber Stuff Fast Enough
Agile reforms won’t work until the culture changes.
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Social Skills May Be the Key to Career Success
Positions that require both cognitive and social skills have shown more wage growth in the past few decades.
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Meet Ralph and Alice, NASA’s Power Couple
And one of the few federal systems you’ll remember by name.
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Forget Standing Desks: Study Suggests Bicycle Desks Can Offset Hazards of Sitting
Isolated spurts of intense exercise don’t cancel out the harm of sitting still at the office all day. A new study suggests that biking while working can help.
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What Does Your Sex Life Have to Do With Your Security Clearance?
It’s the kind of information spies would love to get.
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Working Too Much Can Increase Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
Even cutting back your hours a little bit can go a long way.
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How to Measure IT’s Strategic Value
CIOs need to create metrics that go beyond server downtime.
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GE Saw the Light on Performance, Government Should Too
The answer is not to end employee reviews, but to make them better.
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The Management Tool Amazon Employees Despise Might Be Coming to Your Organization
The tool allowed workers to send feedback about their colleagues directly to managers.
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Why the Government Doesn’t Work
Procedures focus on avoiding negative publicity, not on high performance.
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Going to a Selective College Matters. But Only For Some Majors.
A new study shows school choice matters the most for business majors.
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Six Lessons From Katrina Loom Even Larger 10 Years Later
Vulnerable communities are still unprepared for a catastrophic event.
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Stephen Colbert’s Thank You to Jon Stewart Shows The Difference a Great Boss Can Make
Stewart was "infuriatingly good" at his job, according to Colbert.
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Friday Leadership Ideas to Help You Finish Strong
This simple framing change is an antidote to negativity and frustration.
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Scientists Have a Trick For Accomplishing Your Goals
There's a formula for reinforcing self-control.
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GE Had to Kill Its Annual Performance Reviews After More Than Three Decades
The company got rid of formal, forced ranking around 10 years ago.
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Government Is Losing the War for the Best and Brightest
The key to solving big problems is people, not technology.
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Labor Department: American Workers Are Not Getting Much More Productive
If things keep going this way, we might need to rethink our growth expectations.
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