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• Overload: Streamlining Governments
• By: William D. Eggers, John O'Leary   |   August 25, 2010
• Too much government? Maybe. Too many governments? Definitely.
• 4 Comments

• Serious Cost Cutters Only, Please
• By: William D. Eggers, John O'Leary   |   August 18, 2010
• This column is for those public leaders who are looking to make structural changes that will bend the cost curve of government down.
• 2 Comments

• IT Drives Shared Services
• By: Jerry Mechling   |   August 11, 2010
• What's the quickest way to make $1,900 a year for each man, woman and child in the country? Use technology to implement a cost-effective shared services model.
• 3 Comments

• The Missing Commissioners
• By: Paul L. Posner   |   August 4, 2010
• State and local government officials should also sit on the president's new deficit reduction commission.

• Sustainable Government is Attainable Government
• By: William D. Eggers, John O'Leary   |   July 28, 2010
• Don't wait for a crisis to drive change, make change a constant feature of government.
• 1 Comments

• From Grey to Green in the Concrete Jungle
• By: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   July 21, 2010
• A plan in Philadelphia to build a greener, more sustainable stormwater system may well blast green infrastructure into the mainstream.
• 2 Comments

• Team Building: How to Turn an Alligator into an Advocate
• By: Gerry DeSeve, Robert Fryer   |   July 14, 2010
• Five steps to winning over your toughest critic.
• 4 Comments

• 4 Tips to Redesigning Services
• By: Babak Armajani   |   July 7, 2010
• This fiscal crisis demands transformational changes. Here's how to do it.
• 5 Comments

• Crisis and Innovation: Let the Bad Times Roll
• By: John D. Donahue   |   June 30, 2010
• Innovation appears to flourish in agencies under extreme pressure.

• Major Change, Fast Results
• By: Russ Linden   |   June 23, 2010
• Changing the culture of an organization doesn't have to take a decade.
• 5 Comments

• Three IT Challenges for the 2011 Transition
• By: Jerry Mechling   |   June 16, 2010
• Looming political transitions and tough economic times create an unusual window of opportunity for IT-enabled innovations.

• The Deficit Inferno
• By: Paul L. Posner   |   June 9, 2010
• For governments facing fiscal gaps, these five stages outline an official's journey to acceptance and finally, action.
• 1 Comments

• The Danger of Missed Warnings
• By: John O'Leary   |   June 2, 2010
• Working in a high-risk environment, like a space shuttle or an oil rig, it is easy to grow complacent. What can managers do to avoid the complacency trap?

• Broke, Broken or Both
• By: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   May 26, 2010
• How to discern clues that a public-sector program is out of money and underperforming.