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Kay T. Ely: Providing Human Capital Solutions to Federal Agencies

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 - 10:57

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Lauren Kronthal

Teddy Roosevelt said, “Government jobs belong to the American people, not politicians, and shall be filled only with regard to public service.” Roosevelt’s enthusiasm for civil service led President Benjamin Harrison to appoint him the first c

Tom Day: Leveraging Innovation to Transform the United States Postal Service

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 - 10:51

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Michael J. Keegan

Today’s mail is among the most effective channels of communication in a crowded marketplace. As technology, commerce, and society evolve, so, too, must government and corporate business models. This is as true for the U.S.

Tom Allen: Improving Federal Financial Reporting

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 - 10:40

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Michael J. Keegan

Annually, some $2.7 trillion of taxpayer money flows through the accounts of the U.S. federal government. Article 1 Section 9 of the U.S.

A Conversation with Kamal Bherwani: Chief Information Officer for New York City’s Health and Human Services and Executive Director of HHS-Connect

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 - 10:13

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Michael J. Keegan

Local and state governments are under tremendous pressureto do more for citizens and to do it better. Technology hasenabled governments to do just that, and nowhere is this

Six Practical Steps to Improve Contracting

Monday, February 23rd, 2009 - 20:00

Author(s):

Allan V Burman, Ph.D.

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Federated Human Resource Management in the Federal Government: The Intelligence Community Model

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 - 20:00

Author(s):

James R. Thompson

Rob Seidner

The Intelligence Community developed a "federated" approach to its human capital system under the authority of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Preventio

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Leadership Advice

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 - 13:32

The Obama team’s appointments are coming at a record pace, notes the Wall Street Journal. For those being appointed, there is lots of policy advice. But there’s also some useful leadership advice from those who have been in these kinds of roles before. I’d like to highlight a couple.

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Norman M. Macdonald

The link in the Osborn segment to PSG Colleagues had a link to New Zealand's reinventing government initiative. What the Kiwis did is very interesting and informative . I believe that a closer study of a small but intellectually advanced nation has done would be a good idea. No so much as what went right but how and why things went in a negative direction.

12/24/2008 - 00:06