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• Learn About Lean and Other Management Fads from Texts
• Posted By: Ken Miller, Bill Bott |   May 21, 2013
• A text message conversation about how once management fads fade, the best concepts remain.
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• What Citizens Really Want
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   April 7, 2013
• Above all else, citizens want results. When they don't get them, they morph into selfish people.
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• Remembering Tom Clements
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   March 25, 2013
• The leader of Colorado’s prison system, who was killed last week, was a hero to communities that probably never knew his name.
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• It’s Not Rocket Science
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   March 11, 2013
• IT isn’t the solution to all our problems, and it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to see that NASA should postpone liftoff for its new procurement system.
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• Epic Technology Failures
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   February 22, 2013
• There are many, but tracking software -- which various government agencies make use of every day -- is one of the biggest.
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• A TV-Inspired New Year's Resolution for Improving Government Services
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   January 10, 2013
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• Fear and Loathing in Chicago
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• Posted By: Bill Bott |   September 11, 2012
• But black belts, "Lean" t-shirts and TQM posters are forever. Well, not really.
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• Putting Olympic Passion to Work
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   August 13, 2012
• The Games may be over, but public workers must still find the drive to go for the gold.
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• Spam and Spam a Lot
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   August 2, 2012
• The false hopes of unnecessary solutions can drown out meaningful conversation about how to fix government processes.
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• Good management is a four-quarter commitment, not a last-ditch effort.

• Government Scandals: Why We Shouldn't Overreact
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   May 15, 2012
• Recent abuses in the GSA, the Secret Service and the ICE are reprehensible. But they're no reason to overhaul government policies.
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• Improving Government Management: Time to Get Radical
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   April 11, 2012
• Stop thinking about the work involved in a given task, and start thinking about everything else.
• 4 Comments

• 'Bad Idea Jeans': Why Do Governments Keep Making the Same Management Mistakes?
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   March 26, 2012
• States and localities keep trying on the same pair of pants and expecting them to fit differently.
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• The 'Paper Pipe' and the 'Practical Pipe'
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• The People Aren't the Problem
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• A Case Study of One Public Employee
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• Unresolved
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   January 10, 2012
• Resolutions were meant to be broken. Here are two that government needs to break this year.
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• Reevaluating Employee Evaluations
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   December 8, 2011
• Annual employee appraisals are at best a waste of time -- and they could actually be keeping your agency from improving.
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• What to do with the 'Flo's' of Child Protection
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   August 6, 2013
• If the work made passionate people act like Flo on the TV series "Alice," then the work can bring them back.
• 7 Comments

• CYA is Killing Kids
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   June 25, 2013
• Agencies' tendency to add more rules (and thus work) every time something bad happens prevents child protection workers from doing everything they can to keep kids safe.
• 5 Comments

• Learn About Lean and Other Management Fads from Texts
• Posted By: Ken Miller, Bill Bott |   May 21, 2013
• A text message conversation about how once management fads fade, the best concepts remain.
• 9 Comments

• What Citizens Really Want
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   April 7, 2013
• Above all else, citizens want results. When they don't get them, they morph into selfish people.
• 12 Comments

• Remembering Tom Clements
• Posted By: Bill Bott |   March 25, 2013
• The leader of Colorado’s prison system, who was killed last week, was a hero to communities that probably never knew his name.
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