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.

A Form Isn’t Just Another Form When It Saves People’s Lives

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3 min

A Form Isn’t Just Another Form When It Saves People’s Lives

By William Leighty, partner in DecideSmart, LLC, senior strategic advisor to the dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government...

Is “innovation” an overused word in government?

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2 min

Is “innovation” an overused word in government?

A couple of weeks ago, New York City’s new mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order consolidating all the city’s technology agencies...

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2 min

Power Not Partisanship

The other day, we came across some news from Washington state about a brewing tug of war between the executive and legislative branches...

What Aristotle Knew about States and Localities That You Should know.

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3 min

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...

An Audit of Workplace Culture: “I Just Can’t Get Anyone to Listen.”

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2 min

An Audit of Workplace Culture: “I Just Can’t Get Anyone to Listen.”

Often performance audits geared to one agency in one state carry provide lessons for many other governments around the U.S. That’s true...

Why do people laugh when we talk about the good government can do?

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3 min

Why do people laugh when we talk about the good government can do?

In the days before the pandemic shut down most social gatherings that we might have attended, one of the first obligatory questions in...

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3 min

The Digital Divide Lives On!

We recall being extremely excited decades ago at the prospect of state and local governments being able to conduct all sorts of...

Bringing Home the Gold: Encouraging Change with Technology-Oriented Reskilling Programs

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3 min

Bringing Home the Gold: Encouraging Change with Technology-Oriented Reskilling Programs

by Laurie Giddens, G. Brint Ryan College of Business, University of North Texas and Stacie Petter, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor...

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