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B&G REPORT.
The B&G Report features newsy items relating to a wide variety of state and local government management topics, including state and local performance audit, state and local performance management, government budgeting, state and local human resource issues, and a variety of other public sector issues.
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REALITY TV AND REALITY IN GOVERNMENT
In 2024, our professional life was very busy (as our colleagues, family and friends know), and so we hardly had the energy in our...
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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (Part 3)
As we approach the last several weeks of December, our plan is to take a full vacation starting on December 14, continuing through New...
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CAN WE HAVE A DATE?
A couple of weeks ago, our B&G Report published a series of answers to the question: “What should members of the press know in order to...
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RX FOR PERFORMANCE PITFALLS
Last week’s B&G Report included the second in a series of lists, compiled by experts, about managing performance. The first such list,...
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IS SPEEDY GOVERNMENT GOOD GOVERNMENT?
Not to be overly blunt, but we’ve grown sick and tired of hearing people complaining about how long it takes state and local governments...
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REINVENTING THE WHEEL – PUBLIC SECTOR STYLE
Recently, a relatively high-level manager in a large southern city told us about the progress her city was making in energizing a...
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On the Road to a More Diverse Workforce
Cities, counties and states from coast to coast are cultivating efforts to create a more diverse workforce – one that mirrors the...
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The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Mini-RCTs
“Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been called the gold standard for identifying the impacts of public service-delivery...
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Let’s Talk Performance!
A couple of weeks ago, we were invited by the National Center for Public Performance to be the inaugural panelists in its series of...
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Keeping Focus on the Humans at the Heart of Human Services
After 23 years in government John Eller, the director of Social Services in Mecklenburg County, will leave his government job in...
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THE B&G Reading List
Periodically, we make a request in the B&G Report for recommendations of books that provide worthy reading for people who are interested...
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Why hide from data?
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been doing research into the challenges municipalities face when they want to hire a diverse workforce....
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Measuring Principals (not Principles)
Over the years in which we’ve been covering the evolution of performance management, it’s always been abundantly clear to us that great...
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City Parks Tackling Climate Change
Typically, when people think about efforts to help deal with the byproducts of global warming, they focus on the power of federal...
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What Are The Best City Park Systems?
On May 3rd, The Trust for Public Land (TPS) released its annual ParkScore rankings of parks in the 100 most populous cities, based on...
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“I Wonder… What if…? Let’s Try!” From Sesame Street to Your Governments and Communities- The Power
By Bruce Waltuck, Professor, Kean University, College of Business and Public Management and an award-winning creator and facilitator of...
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Spending State Dollars Effectively By Prioritizing Partnerships
About a month ago, we wrote a column for Route Fifty about a dramatic transformation in the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS)....
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State Investments: Higher Returns vs. Other Benefits
When states invest money, whether for their pension plans or other purposes, to what extent is it sensible for them to trade potentially...
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WHAT ARISTOTLE KNEW ABOUT STATES AND LOCALITIES THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Aristotle had it right when he wrote, “The more you know, the more you know you don't know.” We’ve come across this idea repeatedly over...
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