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A Journey Through the Design of a Virtual Learning Environment
Friday, June 15, 2012
Virtual worlds are increasingly heralded as a low-cost, simulated environment that can be used for a variety of purposes, including training. In his paper on virtual reality as an...
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Revitalizing a Post-Conflict Government in Liberia
Friday, June 15, 2012
Several years of conflict in Liberia destroyed the civil service and ruined a merit-based system. The conflict allowed leaders to ignore standards and procedures and recruit unqualified...
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A Currency of Competency at Treasury
Friday, June 15, 2012
Dealing with the nation's money; not to mention our entire financial systems is a demanding task.
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Using Leadership Development To Boost Return-on-Investment
Friday, June 15, 2012
Federal agencies may soon be facing an unprecedented need for internal leadership development. Training in succession planning and renewal can keep people in the organization and build...
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Promoting Minority Rights in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herezegovina
Friday, June 15, 2012
Preventing violence while achieving full civil and political rights for minorities living in post-conflict environments is a challenge. It depends on inclusion, trust, and international...
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Motivated by the Mission Or by Their Careers
Friday, June 15, 2012
One of the most persistent questions facing leaders of government organizations is how to keep employees engaged, productive, and committed to serving the public. Leaders who understand and...
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Pointing the Path to Performance Getting Results From the Results Act
Friday, June 15, 2012
Performance measurement and accountability have long served as watchwords for government reformers across the political spectrum. More than two decades ago, David Osborne and Ted Gaebler...
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Leadership Is Everybodys Business
Friday, June 15, 2012
“In today’s world there are countless opportunities to make a difference. And more than ever there is a need for people of all ages, from all backgrounds, with all types of life experience...
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Making Performance Information More Useful
Friday, June 15, 2012
Only 50 percent of federal managers use performance information to help them run more effective programs. This percentage has not changed in more than a decade, according to two Government...
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How Federal Executives Build Successful Long-Term Organizations
Friday, June 15, 2012
What do executives do? How do they spend their time? What do they leave behind after their tenure? To answer these questions, we interviewed 24 top political executives in the Obama...
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International Exchange Programs Strengthen the Global Community
Friday, June 15, 2012
Each year thousands of international visitors travel to and from the United States on exchange programs funded by public and private sources. For the past 50 years, Graduate School USA’s...
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Getting Clear About the Cloud
Friday, June 15, 2012
Suppose your project team has just been tasked with building a text-searchable database from 400,000 JPEG images of archived government documents. Each image must first be converted to...
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Good Governance for Worldwide Independence
Friday, June 15, 2012
The summer 2012 issue kicks off with a mini-forum on inter-institutional collaboration overseas. With an emphasis on governance solutions for interdependent times, Sarah Ringler reports on...
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Federal Agency Finds Success In Group Mentoring Program
Friday, June 15, 2012
The National Security Agency (NSA) started three innovative group mentoring programs to adapt to the diverse, fast-paced, and different ways employees need to work together and share...
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Can a Government Wide Mentorship Program Work
Friday, June 15, 2012
What if there was a virtual, government-wide mentoring program that not only reached out across the varying levels of government (federal, state, and local), but also bridged the expanse...
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Virginia Transportation Agency Seeks Performance-Based Certification
Friday, June 15, 2012
Departments of Transportation (DOTs) across the country are challenged to maintain their roads and bridges in the face of large fiscal budgets cuts. Because the work does not diminish with...
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Transferring-Best-Practices-Poses-Challenges-and-Risks
Friday, June 15, 2012
Assess whether your organization can successfully adapt and implement another agency's best practices using these criteria.
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Can Leaders Keep Their Cool While Feeling the Heat
Friday, June 15, 2012
“Those who live the life know that government leaders live in a fishbowl, as if whatever they do could be broadcast around the world. National service requires a level of openness unheard...
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