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Falling Behind on Appointments

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - 19:31
According to the Washington Post’s Al Kamen, “President Obama's personnel operation, which got off to a record-breaking start early this year in filling top administration jobs, has stalled a bit in recent months. In fact, it's well behind the pace set by the Bush administration in 2001 for the top 500 or so administration jobs -- and time is quickly running out to close the gap.”
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ISO Good Ideas: Ask Employees Part II

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 - 19:54
Sixteen years ago in the heyday of reinventing government, if the White House wanted good ideas, it had to go look for them.  The reinvention team had a team of 250 career civil servants and a network of teams in each agency that did the looking.
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Jacque Klugman

good post i like what you do here

03/08/2010 - 07:16
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Recognizing Civil Servants

Friday, September 18th, 2009 - 12:41
One of the things I learned working on the Reinventing Government initiative in the 1990s for Vice President Gore was that civil servants do some pretty amazing things.  And they get little recognition for it.  But now it's time to make government cool again!
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Ask Employees How to Fix It

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - 19:02
Optimists believe that two data points constitute a trend.  So here’s a trend.  Ask employees why things don’t work and how to fix them!
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DFW

who cares

09/18/2009 - 08:16
John Kamensky

Guess you just have to work in the government or receive a government service to care!

09/18/2009 - 12:37
jennifer Grivins

Can I use your http://bizgov.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/light-bulb.jpg
on a district wide handout to calculate the energy cost of lighting our rooms?

02/16/2010 - 20:14
John Kamensky

I found the graphic on another ".org" blog site, so we do not have proprietary rights to it. I was unable to find the primary owner of the graphic. If you are uncomfortable using it, you might try looking for a similar graphic from a ClipArt website.

02/17/2010 - 03:48
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Using Crowdsourcing in Government

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 - 16:24
For years, democracy advocates have promoted the notion of engaging citizens in their government.  There are different ways of doing this (public hearings, debates, dialogue panels, etc), and at different points in the policy cycle (proposing, debating, implementing, reviewing, etc.).
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Citizen Participation: An Update

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - 15:16
Increasing participation in government by citizens is a key element of President Obama’s Transparency and Open Government initiative.  He signed a directive his first full day in office to create guidance for agencies on how they should go about implementing the principles in the directive, but delays in appointing officials have led to a delay in the development and release of the guidance.
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Norman M. Macdonald

Let us hope that the leadership of this effort comes from the ground level. I don't mean individuals but groups of sometimes diverse individuals who are working together to address commons needs representing at times diverse view points.I guess the term "collaborative governance" would fit.

09/16/2009 - 03:56
Amelia Loye

Hi!
Great work you guys!
Please keep me informed about the progress/thinking of these sub-groups. I am particularily interested in 7, 4, 9, 6, and 10.
I'm an Australian Stakeholder Engagement Advisor currently working in Canada. I specialise in Engagement Advice for policy development teams - usually environmental policy.
I will be returning to Australia soon and after meeting many passionate champions of deliberative process in Canada, I'm keen to connect my networks. I've been considering creating an online network but don't want to reinvent the wheel so am researching existing networks. Do you consider yourself to be an international network or is your focus on the US?
Thanks,
Amelia

09/18/2009 - 23:25
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Using Czars to Govern

Friday, September 11th, 2009 - 17:13
The media, and some members of Congress, continue to focus on President Obama’s use of “czars.”  An article today by the Wall Street Journal’s Neil King examines how this dust-up highlights the ongoing challenge of how government is increasingly facing problems that reach across traditional agency and program boundaries.  These problems include food safety, climate change, and the Recovery Act.  There is no accepted institutional mechanism to manage these problems and President Obama is using a pragmatic approach –
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Norman M. Macdonald

The czar concept is another form of top down . command and control management. The whole Federal Civil Service should be involved in problem solving in collaboration with the individuals they have business with. In several previous comments I have spoken of doing some type of all hands evaluation on where the various work units stand in relation to their world. In my over 40 years as a management analyst I have found answers to hard problems at the grass roots level. By the way Imperial Russia had one Czar and the folks who handled special interests were called, I believe, boyars.

09/12/2009 - 06:28
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Federal Jobs: A New Era

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 - 15:30
The Washington Post reports that the Partnership for Public Service released a study this morning describing the hiring needs of the federal government.  The study, "Where the Jobs Are 2009:  Mission Critical Opportunities for America," says that the federal government needs to hire 273,000 new workers in the next three years. 
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Bob Stone

Back in 1993 the political folks were looking for savings and the reinventors were looking for front-line empowerment. Cutting the forces of central control and micromanagement would have satisfied both. Unfortunately we made the cuts, but the forces of CC&MM managed to keep their positions and continued to interfere with workers trying to get their work done.

Better luck this time!

09/03/2009 - 23:11
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Blogs as Public Policy Forums

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 - 18:27
A new study out by Brookings “Blogs as Public Forums for Agency Policymaking” looks at blogs created by top officials in five federal agencies and compared them to similar, but non-official blogs on the same topics to see how each are used to link citizens and government officials.  Authors Julianne Mahler and Pricilla Regan found that these agency blogs “elicit more controversy than expected” and that they “have more posts and comments” than related, but non-agency sponsored blo
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