Management
Writing Guides To Our Work Styles Helped My Team Bond
The "user manual" exercise has been recommended by CEOs, entrepreneurs, and executive coaches as a way to “shorten the learning curve” for new teams.
Management
How to Cope When You're the Oldest Member of Your Team (or Just Feel That Way)
An exercise in vulnerability helped me understand my millennial coworkers.
Management
There's a Trick To Getting Entitled Employees to Stop Complaining and Do Their Jobs
We're sorry to inform you that special treatment is necessary, according to a new study.
Management
Trump’s Category 5 Storm
What will hit first in 2018, the tsunami of a very big policy revolution or the legal waves that could submerge Trump’s presidency?
Management
OMB’s New Deputy for Management Faces a Big Challenge
Performance won’t improve until agencies have the flexibility to introduce more effective talent management practices.
Management
For High-Performance Government, Deputy Secretaries Need to Act Like Chief Operating Officers
There is no substitute for a top leader’s focused attention—not memos from the executive suite, orders from OMB, or hearings by Congress.
Management
Security Clearance Backlog Has Been a Decade in the Making
There’s no shortage of recommendations for addressing the problems.
Management
The Clock Is Ticking on Trump’s Management Agenda
Without the roadmap of a viable management agenda, it’s hard to see how proposed reorganization plans could be effective.
Management
A Short Equation Explains Why Simplicity Is The Best Policy
Why simple processes so often produce better results.
Management
Data Shouldn't Drive All of Your Decisions
Correlation does not reveal the one thing that matters most in innovation.
Management
How Agencies Can Address the Aging Workforce Gap
Nearly one-third of federal employees are eligible for retirement, yet only 28 percent of the current workforce is under 40 years old.
Management
The Annual Pay Ritual Has Lost Relevance
Contrary to some reports, General Schedule employees have received competitive pay increases—but that does not mean salary levels are competitive.
Management
Motivating Employees Isn't About Making Them Happy
The expectation that leaders should keep employees engaged and happy sets them up for failure.
Management
The Humane Way to Fire Someone
Firing someone will be an event you will quickly move past, but for the other person, the impact could last an entire career.
Management
Overcoming the Strategy Execution Gap
Leaders too often are not open to employees’ ideas for improving performance.
Management
Adam Grant Recommends The Best Holiday Gift Managers Can Give Employees
It's an act of gratitude that costs nothing, and benefits all parties.
Management
The Cost of Trump's Attacks on the FBI
When cabinet officials don’t push back on Trump’s efforts to delegitimize their agencies, they leave their staff frustrated and demoralized.
Management
Can Withering Public Trust In Government Be Traced Back To the JFK Assassination?
In the minds of many, the assassination remains a tragedy cloaked in mystery. How does this lack of closure – and the general distrust it fomented – resonate in American culture and politics today?
Management
To Calm Your Emotions, Get 15 Minutes Alone
"When people willingly spend time alone, they reap the greater benefits—something that, of course, has always been a part of ancient wisdom and practices."
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