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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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HOW DELAYS CAN DAMAGE TRUST IN GOVERNMENT
More than ten years ago, leaders in West Haven, Connecticut (where the Greene of Barrett and Greene grew up), began planning a fabulous...
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GOVERNMENT IS MORE THAN RED VS BLUE
We’re looking forward to participating in a panel at the upcoming annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration...
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SHORTCOMINGS OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
As anyone who has been reading our work in the past knows, we’re strong believers in making sure that there’s ample use of evidence when...
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WILDFIRES: HOW TO MANAGE A CRISIS
In the wake of the pandemic, we co-wrote a paper for the IBM Center for the Business of Government in collaboration with renowned...
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR TOWER OF BABEL
We were involved in a meeting the other day, in which a couple of participants were talking about agile government. We hear that term...
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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)
We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a...
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A READER'S GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE
Several decades ago, when we first developed a passion for performance management, we leaned upon a cadre of people who were pioneering...
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FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS
A little over a year ago, we wrote a column for Route Fifty about the remarkably ambitious host of efforts that Fort Worth, Texas was...
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GENERATION Z: ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
In conversations that we’ve had lately with people in human resources and elsewhere in government, we’ve found ourselves repeatedly...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO ELECTED OFFICIALS
Good day, Last week we were talking to an inquisitive person who is rising in the local public sector world. The conversation turned to...
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WHY DO PEOPLE LAUGH WHEN WE TELL THEM WHAT WE DO?
When we attend social gatherings like weddings and are seated with people who don’t know us, one of the obligatory first questions...
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POTHOLES ON THE AI ROAD
We’re not scared of AI. It doesn’t take much historical memory to know that pretty much any new technology brings out fear and...
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THE GRAVEYARD OF GOOD IDEAS
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a B&G report titled “Is Speedy Government Good Government?” in which we made the case that the pressure...
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EMPLOYEE SURVEYS' TWO-EDGED SWORD
Employee surveys can provide extremely valuable information for supervisors, managers and HR officials in cities, counties, and states...
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TRANSPARENCY AND TRUST
As we recently reported in the second of a two-part series about Trust In Government for Route Fifty, about 45% of Americans have a less...
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FAILURE AS A KEY TO SUCCESS
We’ve just been catching up on one of our favorite podcasts, Freakonomics Radio, and came across a wonderful conversation with Samuel...
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Negative Audits Can Be Good News
Several years ago – right before the start of the pandemic -- our book, The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management was...
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Attack on Auditor Independence in Iowa
Last night, the Iowa Senate quickly passed a bill that effectively limits the State Auditor’s independent oversight by restricting his...
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Measuring & Managing Business Tax Incentives
by Dr. Ellen Harpel, Founder of Smart Incentives and Randall Bauer, Director, PFM Group Consulting Randall Bauer Ellen Harpel As...
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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits
Episode Two: Inappropriate Computer Access - We don’t recall any performance auditors complaining to us about the frustration they must...
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