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The Public Manager
Governing Through Networks
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
During his first one hundred days in office, President Barack Obama showed a preference for using pragmatic approaches to tackle big policy and implementation challenges. To do so, his...
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Adaptability: Leading Through Focused Conversations
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
We are nearly overwhelmed by changea new administration in Washington, an economy still on a downhill slide, and a rocky, war-torn global landscape. As the tempo of unpredictability...
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The Public Sector and the Power of Us
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Anyone who thinks change is easy should try asking their partner to change the side of the bed on which they sleep. Adjusting to the realities of a connected world is a more dramatic...
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Introduction
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
This timely mini-forum on public-sector infrastructure investments blends applied research and case study insights on a diverse set of management challenges. The first article, by Wendy...
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Leveraging Networks and Social Software for Mission Success
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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Corporate and federal leaders are learning that traditional, hierarchical organizational (org) charts are no longer accurate depictions of how and by whom work gets done in modern...
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High-Speed Rail: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In April 16, 2009, President Obama startled the passenger rail community by saying what no other president has: that high-speed rail (HSR) is an idea whose time has finally arrived in the...
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Improvising Air Force Transportation Systems by Using Alternative Energy
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Air Force leaders, like many public-sector managers, must strive to introduce innovative alternative energy systems while encouraging cost-effectiveness and systematic learning. Education...
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Transportation Megaprojects: Comparing Project Management and Oversight Approaches
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The desire to build persists. Since the earliest known civilizations, government leaders, aided by their public managers, have constructed large public works projects. Whether we look at...
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Future Compensation of the State and Local Workforce
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that by 2016, 124 million people will be employed by the U.S. private sector and that the state and local government workforce will...
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Performance-Based Pay at NGA
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Over the past year or so, a great deal has been written about the problems of the performance-based pay programs at the U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS)....
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Coordinating Cross-Boundary Performance at the FAA
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Problems cross boundaries and so must solutions. The most important challenge for performance networks that aim to deliver better results is designing the structure that coordinates across...
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Federal Performance Reporting: What a Difference Ten Years Makes!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
In 1999a decade agofederal agencies issued their first annual performance reports mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. That same year, the Mercatus Center...
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