Climate Change Is Now a High Risk

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Typically, we think of the GAO focusing on territory familiar to auditors, which is what most of the high risk list does:  managing federal real property, DOD supply chain management, NASA acquisitions management, modernizing federal disability programs.  But now it has added a politically-charged topic to its list, but has taken the middle of the road on the topic.

Power and Privacy: What We Can Learn from Superheroes

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The explicit message of modern superhero stories is best summed up in Spiderman’s origin tale, “with great power comes great responsibility.”  But the implicit message is that some people are able to exert greater influence over events than others.  And, whether in the DC or Marvel universe, there is a relationship between the way someone can exert their influence and the kind of privacy they create for themselves.

Transforming the National Archives: A Conversation with David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

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The National Archives is more than just the nation's record keeper and protector of records. It is the steward of the American story that preserves the past to protect the future. The records it holds are the original sources of that story, documenting the collective history of our nation through the actions of individuals and institutions.

Weekly Round-up: February 22, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

This week was Social Media Week DC, and lots of #SocMed stories (and more) developed.

Center’s Guide for New Leaders Across Government Now Available

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Four years ago, the IBM Center for The Business of Government released a book to guide new government executives, especially new political appointees. The goal of the book was to quickly acclimate new government executives to the world of public service as practiced in Washington, D.C.

Leadership in a Changing World

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So this was an opportunity for me to reflect on my experiences and observations over my career.

Leadership can be a difficult topic about which to convey anything meaningful.  There is so much written about the topic and it either feels like conceptual theory or platitudes, or you wind up narrating personal war stories.  I’m no Tom Fox, who writes thoughtfully about this topic weekly for the Washington Post!

Three Ways Tech Is Changing Culture in DC (and One Way It Isn't)

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For Social Media Week DC, I participated in a panel that discussed how tech is changing the culture in the nation's capital.

The Revised "Operator’s Manual for the New Administration"

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Four years ago, the Center for The Business of Government released “The Operator’s Manual for the New Administration.”  This report provided practical insights on how to make agency operations work more effectively, drawing on the first ten years of reports from the Center to draw lessons learned in areas ranging from leadership to money to technology to collaboration.  The insights were written in the form of memos to individual leaders who come into government and need to make its wheels turn to accomplish their objectives. 

Weekly Round-up: March 01, 2013

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This article has been updated to include Dan Chenok's contribution.

 

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Information: To Share and Protect, Part 2

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To commemorate Data Privacy Day, this blog post addresses the Privacy Controls; the first addressed the Information Sharing Strategy (http://www.businessofgovernment.org/blog/business-government/information...); and a third will discuss the necessary linkages between the two.

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