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Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Government Leader Update, a
monthly e-letter about how government leaders are making practical
progress in the art of government management. You are receiving this
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DEEP SIX SIGMA: DFAS PUTS A NEW SPIN ON PERFORMANCE
ANALYSIS TOOL
Tom McCarty knows a thing or two about
improving business processes. McCarty was one of the pioneers at
Motorola, beginning in 1987, to use a new statistical method to improve
the reliability of the company’s radio equipment. Motorola’s
work eventually turned the practice of Six Sigma into an industrial
catalyst for improving performance and led McCarty to become one of the
deans of the Six Sigma movement.
HUMAN CAPITAL: LEADERS GET TEPID MARKS IN OPM
SURVEY
What do rank-and-file federal employees think of
their leaders? Government executives don’t get particularly high
marks from their employees in the latest Office of Personnel Management
Federal Human Capital survey, available at www.opm.com.
PRESIDENT’S MANAGEMENT AGENDA: LABOR SETS THE PACE ON
ROAD TO GREEN
When the Labor Department connected the final
dot on the President’s Management Agenda, officials were seeing
green. No, not green with envy, but the green of becoming the first
agency to earn passing grades on each of the five PMA
categories—budget and performance integration, competitive
sourcing, e-government, financial performance and human
capital.
ANSWERING THE CALL: MAKE SURE YOUR BUDGET REQUEST PASSES
MUSTER
Sometime around Sept. 5, the Office of Management and
Budget will receive your agency’s fiscal 2007 budget request and
before they even open the folder, you and your colleagues will make a
mad dash for the door for vacation, right?
MANAGING TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER: INTERIOR’S LAMB USES
SKILLS, SMARTS TO NURTURE PARTNERSHIP ENVIRONMENT
With
Robert J. Lamb, the Interior Department’s senior adviser for
policy, management and budget, there is no such thing as a set
script.
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