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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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HR PRACTICES: THE BEST LAID PLANS. . .
Last Tuesday in our Management Update Section, we announced the publication of a study titled “2025 State and Local Workforce Survey...
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“ON NETWORKING AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS”
Over the course of years, we’ve come to rely on a number of organizations that specialize in various aspects of state and local...
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ADMIT IT!
Every government makes mistakes from time to time. Sometimes, leaders acknowledge that a decision made in the past has gone awry and...
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DO LEGISLATURES UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF MANAGEMENT?
For some time, we’ve been fascinated by the relationship between executive branch managers and their legislatures or city councils. Not...
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CHANGING TIMES, CHANGING BELIEFS
A few months ago, at the American Society for Public Administration conference in Washington D.C., the Center for Accountability and...
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BEWARE OF THE DRAW TO SOCIAL MEDIA
Today is “World Social Media Day,” a celebration of that form of communications that was first proclaimed in 2010 by Mashable, a media...
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UNTANGLING FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE
Many states, counties and city leaders are regularly raging against “fraud, waste and abuse.” This is hardly a new issue but inspired by...
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HOW TO CATCH BAD DATA BEFORE IT CATCHES YOU
We don’t have a degree in statistics. Nor are we data specialists. But after 30-plus years of using data as a basic tool in our quest to...
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WHINING OVER A GLASS OF WHITE WINE
Generally speaking, we see the positives in the world in which we live. We’re grateful for our work, family, and one another. Right now,...
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DO YOU SPEAK DATA?
Nearly every city, county or state gathers huge quantities of data for a variety of purposes. Some of it is effectively used, some is...
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IN DEFENSE OF OLD TECH
Recently, we were involved in a project that involved reaching out to dozens of officials in cities across the United States. As you...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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