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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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HOT SPOTS FOR GOVERNMENT ACTION
As regular readers of this website know, we generally avoid covering politics or the federal government. That said, we’re beginning this...
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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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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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SEVEN REASONS FOR THANKS ON THURSDAY
Thanksgiving is just a few days away and we thought this was an appropriate time to dig into some of the state and local government news...
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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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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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HOW TO IMPROVE GOVERNMENT COVERAGE
Over the years, we’ve written a great deal about ways in which government officials can improve their relationship with the press. We...
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LOOKING BEHIND THE HEADLINES
We recently came across an online report by a local NPR station that began with a headline that stated that, “Philadelphia and Wilmington...
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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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BURIED ACADEMIC TREASURES
When we were attending the most recent Southeastern Conference for Public Administration in Memphis (SECOPA), we sat in on a number of...
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ARE BEST PRACTICES REALLY THE BEST?
Just the other day, we were editing a Guest Column for this website (we won’t bother to mention the name of the author) and discovered...
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WHAT DO – OR DON’T – THE FEDS DO?
Over the course of time, we’ve written repeatedly about the confusion many Americans have about which level of government provides which...
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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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WHEN CORRUPTION HITS SMALL CITIES
Walter Winchell, one of America’s most popular syndicated gossip columnists and radio commentators from the 1920s through the early 1960s...
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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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NINE TIPS FOR IMPROVING MEETINGS
Over more than 30 years of covering state and local government, we can’t recall ever talking to a public sector manager who loved going...
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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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THE TWELVE BIG LIES ABOUT STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
There are all kinds of variations on the theme of the three big lies that people tell in the normal course of day-to-day life. One of our...
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