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Ideas
OMB’s Latest Workplace Guidance Goes Beyond Asking Agencies to Cut Back Telework
The memo requires agencies to undergo periodic health checkups to make sure they are meeting their performance goals.
Modernization
Chenok and Kamensky: Looking at the big picture
Two executives from the IBM Center for the Business of Government identify seven significant changes to watch for in the coming months.
People
How to create cross-agency networks that work
A recent book identifies eight guiding principles for fostering collaboration between organizations, writes IBM’s John Kamensky.
People
4 lessons in the use of dashboards
Columnist John Kamensky shares new insights into how dashboards can help agencies boost program performance.
People
Want to be successful? Support your frontline managers.
Helping frontline managers get their jobs done is one of the most important activities for a leader, writes John M. Kamensky, a senior fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
People
Obama's performance agenda: Stealthy and radical
Emerging performance initiatives could become the foundation for the collaborative governance models of the future, writes John M. Kamensky, a senior fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
People
Motivating workers is easier than you think
Private-sector researchers have recently uncovered a way to improve employee satisfaction that's within managers' control, writes John Kamensky.
People
4 programs that collect innovative ideas from government employees
Some of the best ideas for improving government might come from within government, writes IBM's John Kamensky.
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