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MEYERROSE'S FORMULA FOR MISSION ACCOMPLISHMENT
It seems almost everyone has a proposal for a bestseller these days, but
that didn’t dissuade retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose
from sharing his idea for a book with a room full of government
executives. Meyerrose, associate director of national intelligence and
CIO, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, outlined his
potential book idea at the GCN IT Leadership conference in Washington
last month.
A LESSON FROM GAO ON CAREER CONVERSIONS
The
Office of Personnel Management earlier this year asked the Government
Accountability Office to review the status of conversion employees in
the federal agencies and determine whether those agencies followed
proper procedure when hiring them. Here are the results.
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AGENCIES CAN IMPROVE PERFORMANCE BY LEARNING FROM BIG
BUSINESS
An analysis in a recent Harvard Business Review
underscores what many in the federal community know—that agencies
operate with handicaps that are largely unseen in the private sector,
but still can overcome their moments of crisis and become even more
successful in serving the public by adapting goals and methods used by
big business.
FLORIDA MANAGER KNOWS HOW TO BUILD BRIDGES IN
GOVERNMENT
Anyone who has worked in government knows
it’s not easy to get city, county and local agencies to agree on
anything. Patricia Curtis has made a career of it. Curtis, director of
management information systems for Leon County, Fla., has spent the past
13 years building bridges across agency and jurisdictional lines
previously deemed impassable, as she oversees the county’s IT
department in Tallahassee.
HOPE DEALER: A NEW KIND OF GOVERNMENT LEADER
To remain relevant, government leaders must bring more than their vision
to work. They must bring their beliefs. The most successful government
leaders of our time will be remembered as much for their beliefs as for
their ideas. They will be remembered for their hope. The challenge to
government leaders is one of training and development. The good news is
that some leaders have figured it out.
ACCENTURE LAUNCHES INSTITUTE TO FOCUS DEBATE ON PUBLIC
VALUE
Accenture Ltd., the global management consulting,
technology services and outsourcing firm, has launched a research and
development center, the Accenture Institute for Public Service Value.
Through original research and analysis, the institute aims to help
governments and public-service organizations achieve high performance
and improve social outcomes
FEDERAL MANAGEMENT COALITION ADDRESSES COMMON
ISSUES
The Government Managers Coalition, a loosely
organized consortium of federal management executive organizations, has
a plan of attack for solving the unique but complicated issues faced by
more than 200,000 managers in the federal government.
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