How Do You Do a Start-up in the Government? Lessons from Leaders

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(Dan Blair, President of the National Academy of Public Administration, collaborated on this blog)

 

Leaders Speak on Leadership and Public Service: Amb. Patrick Kennedy, Adm. Thad Allen, and Dave Wennergren

Submitted by on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 15:04

For a decade, The Business of Government Hour has brought you leading government executives who are changing the way government does business. Each week, our guests join us for an informative, insightful, and in-depth conversation about their careers, their agencies, agency accomplishments, as well as their vision of government in the 21st century.  Over last five years, we have interviewed more than 250 government executives. It is from this rich library that we have culled together their insights on important public management issues.

Implementing Big, Bold Goals (Part One)

Submitted by on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 15:03

In a three-part blog series, I will outline a path that I proposed at a UN-sponsored meeting in Switzerland this past April. This first blog deals with the imperative of converting SDG vision into action and highlights the conspicuous absence of implementation mechanisms in the SDG discussions.

Using Prizes as Innovation Engines

Submitted by on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 15:02

As promised in an earlier blog post on this topic, the IBM Center now has a report, “Managing Innovation Prizes in Government,” by Luciano Kay, with the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Assessing the Obama Administration's Performance Agenda

Submitted by on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 15:01

The CRS report is relatively silent on the potential impact of the recently-signed GPRA Modernization Act on congressional involvement in setting government-wide priorities.  But it does a good job reprising the history of President Obama’s performance initiatives over the past two years, including:

Weekly Round-up: February 04, 2011

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

 

Having Candid Conversations Before Bad Things Happen

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A 2015 survey of federal employees reports that 39 percent fear reprisals if they report violations of rules or laws. This potentially has serious implications for their willingness to identify and report serious programmatic risks in their day-to-day jobs, and the tendency is to avoid or ignore risks.

Understanding the Continuing Resolution

Submitted by on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 14:58

My colleague, Carl Moravitz, used to be the budget director for several major federal agencies.  He pulled together a brief slide deck explaining what the Continuing Resolution means.  Agencies face significant uncertainty, and it may not end when the current Continuing Resolution expires on March 4th.

Here's Carl's explanation.

Implementing Big, Bold Goals (Part 2)

Submitted by on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 14:57

This is the second in a series of blogs that outline a path that I proposed at a UN-sponsored meeting in Switzerland this past April. 

The Innovation Agenda: Private Sector Action, Government Benefit

Submitted by on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 14:56

President Obama has made private sector innovation a centerpiece of the Administration’s agenda for growth and job creation.  This is a subject that has broad support across the spectrum:  citizens, businesses and governments all look to commercial activity as an economic engine; new technologies play a key role in this pursuit.  The Nation’s Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, has been a very visible leader of this activity, with frequent and recent blogs through the White House and media web sites (

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