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Effective Leaders Create Healthy Work Environments
Friday, June 13, 2014
We spend a lot of time at work, so how can we make it reflect our life values? The task is challenging, but its one of the best investments leaders can make in their organizations.
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Helping the Public Understand What Government Writes
Friday, June 13, 2014
By the time one reads the fourth paragraph of the opening chapterThese uninviting letters and reports read as though they are addressed to technical experts and lawyers rather than to...
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Developing the Next Generation of Government Leaders
Friday, June 13, 2014
The federal government will soon lose a depth of institutional knowledge. In July 2013, the Partnership for Public Service and McKinsey Company published a report entitled Building the...
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Clinton Partnerships Show Benefits of Public-Sector Collaboration
Friday, June 13, 2014
Over the past decade, labor-management relations have taken a sharp turn toward confrontation in several states and localities. In the midst of this swirling controversy, which has been...
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Public Managers and Politically Driven Change: A Retrospective
Friday, June 13, 2014
After every election, public managers find themselves working for new elected officials. All public managers must prepare for the specter of change that accompanies elections, and for the...
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Repairing Government's Management Deficiency
Friday, June 13, 2014
Career managers must transform public institutions from management-resistant to management-friendly places. Pilots, for example, must fly in accordance with the professional standards of...
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Now Is the Time to Improve Federal Employee Engagement
Friday, June 13, 2014
As the nations largest and most diversified employer, the federal government must constructand sustaineffective approaches to deal with agency-specific employee engagement. Federal...
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Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration
Friday, June 13, 2014
Leading EDGE: Executives Driving Government Excellence is an interagency executive leadership development program authorized in September 2011 to facilitate a free flow of ideas and...
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Lean in to Team Conflict
Friday, June 13, 2014
When we dont address conflict, it can escalate and damage relationships and work. If we dont learn how to deal with conflict, the danger is that when conflict arises, the situation will...
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Infusing a 'Can-Do' Spirit Into the Public Sector
Friday, June 13, 2014
Now in its third year, Fuse Corps fellows program offers private-sector participants professional renewal and a taste of public service. Its mission is to build a movement to solve the...
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The Problem With Assumption and the Power of Inquiry
Friday, June 13, 2014
Sometimes assumptions are helpful, but often they can prove unproductiveor even damaging. Assumptions play a crucial role in everyday survival: they fill in gaps in what we think and...
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Modernize the Budget Process to Reflect Technology Realities
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Reforming the budget process for technology to capture savings and provide financial transparency can allow government to benefit from significant advances already being realized in the...
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Help Wanted: A New Kind of Collaborative Leader
Friday, June 13, 2014
Rather, as those challenges become increasingly complex, they require the myriad federal agencies that have expertise, jurisdiction, or stake in the matter to collaborate in a seamless and...
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Collaboration v.2: Respective and Collective
Friday, June 13, 2014
Lets move the discussion to the next level and examine the specific competencies, characteristics, and approaches collaborative public managers need to know. More importantly, almost...
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Can Middle Managers Successfully Build Extraordinary Capabilities?
Friday, June 13, 2014
Innovation within the government must occur even inif not especially duringthis age of austerity. The task of building these capabilities falls to those in the middle of the government:...
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Individuality, Integration: Leadership Styles in Team Collaboration
Friday, June 13, 2014
Todays heightened attention to collaboration amid resource constraints and boundary-spanning problems places new requirements on public managers at all levels of government. Managers must...
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You Call Yourself a Leader? Here’s What a Follower Thinks
Friday, June 13, 2014
Not all managers are leaders. I am a senior level executive and the leader of this office. Why hasnt anyone asked for my opinion on how to proceed? It doesnt matter I will give it anyway I...
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Homelessness Analytics Demonstrate Open Government Project
Friday, June 13, 2014
The partnership between the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs embraces the principles of open government, a top priority of the Obama administration. On his...
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What’s in Your Training Wallet?
Friday, June 13, 2014
Before lamenting the lack of training for your employees because of tight budgets, check your training wallet. Be creative, embrace a multi-faceted approach, and communicate to employees...
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The Public Manager and Public Service
Friday, June 13, 2014
As the new chairman of the board of directors for The Bureaucrat Inc. (publisher of this journal), Id like to thank you for all the support and encouragement youve given to those involved...
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