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Problem Projects, and Finding Solutions

FAIL The Federal landscape is littered with projects that didn’t turn out the way they were intended. A panel of Federal project management experts talked...

Federal News Network Staff

November 14, 2008 6:44 pm

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FAIL

The Federal landscape is littered with projects that didn’t turn out the way they were intended. A panel of Federal project management experts talked about why they fail, and how to prevent it. The panel included former GSA Administrator Lurita Doan, Cognitive Technologies Executive Vice President Chris Mathisen, and David Olive, former Chief of Staff to Congressman Asa Hutchinson and now with Olive, Edwards, and Cooper.

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Money Preview

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced changes to the Troubled Asset Relief Program at a news conference Wednesday. He also talked about coordinating the Federal government’s response to the global financial crisis, and the G20 meeting in Washington this weekend.

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Tell Me About Your Agency

James Lockhart, Director and Chairman of the Oversight Board at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, spoke yesterday at the New America Foundation’s event, “Foreclosures: What are Fannie And Freddie Doing to Stem the Tide?” He offered a history of his relatively new agency, and a primer on what they’re doing.

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How Does He Do It?

Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world. You can learn a lot of lessons from the way he has interacted with, and managed, the people around him throughout his life. For the first time, Buffett has cooperated with a biographer. Alice Schroeder has written “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.” She talked with me about the book and her experience with Warren Buffett.

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