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What Does Obama's Performance Agenda Mean for Your Budget?

The bottom line: A performance measurement agenda must co-exist with pressures to reduce spending and shortfalls.

Our Management Insights colleague Philip Joyce looks at Obama's performance measurement efforts, and how they might affect state and local governments. READ MORE

Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.

Elizabeth Daigneau is GOVERNING's managing editor.