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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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DATAPHOBIA
A couple of months ago at a large social gathering we had the opportunity to spend some time with a person who has dedicated his life to...
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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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BUREACRACY IS NOT A DIRTY WORD
When was the last time you heard anyone say, “Gee what an excellent bureaucracy we have in the Department of Motor Vehicles. It only took...
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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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BAD DATA IS EVERYWHERE: BEWARE!
Way back in 2015, we wrote a cover story for Governing about bad data. (And by the way, we’re delighted to report that after a few...
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THE GENERATIONAL FALLACY
We’ve never really understood the way horoscopes work. How can it be that if someone is born a minute after midnight on October 24th,...
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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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AN OPEN LETTER TO PUBLIC SERVANTS
Today is the first day of Public Service Recognition Week and since much of our readership is made up by people who have devoted their...
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AI AND ENERGY USE: A GROWING CONCERN
Over the last few months, we’ve written extensively about Artificial Intelligence. Mostly we’ve been focusing on the usual issues; its...
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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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THE DEATH OF HISTORY?
Last week, in a B&G Report titled, “Information Can Be a Buried Treasure,” we wrote about our concerns about the use of artificial...
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INFORMATION CAN BE A BURIED TREASURE
A few weeks after we left our then-18-year-old son off at the University of North Carolina in 2005, we got a note from him, thoroughly...
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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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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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