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Federal Retirement Tsunami?
Is there a retirement tsunami? A wave? A ripple? Does it matter? Experts have been predicting a retirement wave for years, with former OPM DIrector Linda Springer even calling it a “retirement tsunami”...
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Shutdown Roulette
The press is filled with reports of a pending government shutdown and what the political effects may be. Who will be blamed? Republicans? Democrats? All of them? With all of the focus on the politics,...
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Shutdown: It Ain’t Over When It’s Over
With a few hopeful signs of movement on the budget/shutdown/debt ceiling/ front, I am hearing people talking about how quickly the shutdown can be turned off everyone can get back to work. As I have...
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Government Management is Not an Oxymoron
My former colleagues/bosses Bill Daley and Linda Bilmes wrote an interesting op/ed piece for the Washington Post offering ideas for improving management in government. It is well worth reading. I wrote...
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Should We Replace the General Schedule?
I’ve written recently about the civil service reforms of the last century that created the General Schedule and why I believe it may have outlived its usefulness. The General Schedule worked well when...
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Fear Not: The Case for Shared Services in Government
The Federal government, much like any other organization, either provides for itself or buys a wide range of overhead services to support its operations. Overhead is not a derogatory term – it is just...
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Putting a Contract Out on Good Ideas
One of the things bad guys used to do in crime movies was “put a contract out” on someone. Those contracts were not to buy something, they meant hiring someone to kill a person. I was reminded of that...
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Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey: The Price of Mistrust
“There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.” Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers’...
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Ready, Set, Wait!
Fiscal year 2015 began 65 days ago, but the Federal government still does not have an FY2015 budget. Yet again, agencies have gone through one sixth of the year with no idea how much money they will...
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