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ViewPoint
FROM THE TOP: The success of a big project—or the prospects for rescuing one—starts with its leadership - Large-scale turnarounds in the world of business invariably seem to attract more press than do comparable stories from the world of government.
UpShot
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Gearing up for A-123 Gearing up for A-123 - When financial officials at the Commerce Department started planning their implementation of the revised Circular A-123, one of their first decisions was to keep the process in-house.
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PERSONNEL: THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ - New civilian personnel system modeled after Defense and DHS is coming—and soon.The rules governing how civilian agencies hire, pay, promote and fire workers will change sooner than many people expect.
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PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: Agencies slow to get the word out on plans for SES pay - Bush administration officials expect the new pay-for-performance system for members of the Senior Executive Service to help drive President’s ManagementAgenda goals on high performance in the federal government.
UpShot
E-GOVERNMENT: The next stop in providing government services - Many governments have reached the limits of the services they can provideonline, a new study has found, raising the question: What comes next?
Commentary
GET ALONG TO GO ALONG - Political appointees and career execs need each other, but working together is often easier said than done.
Survival Guide
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: How to survive testifying on Capitol Hill - If you are a political appointee, member of the Senior Executive Service orsome other kind of agency bigwig, it is not a matter of if you will be called totestify before Congress, but when.
Inside Job
FOCUSING ON EXECUTION - For Gwendolyn Sykes, NASA’s chief financial officer, the ticket to successful leadership is keeping a relentless focus on execution.
BriefCase
RECEIPTS SCANNER PUTS YOUR EXPENSES IN ORDER - In government, most people don’t like to leave a paper trail—unless, of course, itleads to getting reimbursed for expenses.
BriefCase
BOOK SHELF: Words to the Wize on the enterprise - Here’s a book for government executives who still find enterprisearchitectures a bit of a mystery.
BriefCase
AT RANDOM: What’s really hot? - AT RANDOM: What’s really hot? Total number of books on Amazon.com with “Government” and “Management” in the title: 10,318
Practical Leadership
BIG CHANGE, LIGHT TOUCH - Mary Lacey takes an inclusive approach to coaching DOD employees on the department’s new personnel system.
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