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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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TARGETING SPEEDIER FINANCIAL REPORTS
For some time, the complexity of dealing with scores of rules set forth by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has become...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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IS SPEEDY GOVERNMENT GOOD GOVERNMENT?
Not to be overly blunt, but we’ve grown sick and tired of hearing people complaining about how long it takes state and local governments...
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REINVENTING THE WHEEL – PUBLIC SECTOR STYLE
Recently, a relatively high-level manager in a large southern city told us about the progress her city was making in energizing a...
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TOO MUCH DATA – TOO LITTLE TIME
Typically, when we hear about a city or state choosing not to gather more potentially useful data because it’s too time consuming, we...
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Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92
On Tuesday evening, we got a phone call to tell us that Harry P. Hatry, the renowned, respected and remarkable leader in the world of...
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On the Road to a More Diverse Workforce
Cities, counties and states from coast to coast are cultivating efforts to create a more diverse workforce – one that mirrors the...
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What's Next for Evidence-Based Policy Making?
By Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director, The...
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The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Mini-RCTs
“Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been called the gold standard for identifying the impacts of public service-delivery...
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Let’s Talk Performance!
A couple of weeks ago, we were invited by the National Center for Public Performance to be the inaugural panelists in its series of...
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Keeping Focus on the Humans at the Heart of Human Services
After 23 years in government John Eller, the director of Social Services in Mecklenburg County, will leave his government job in...
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