Totally Transition

Now that we know who the next President will be, I focused on talking to some experts about transition. They all offered some guidance about different angles of the...

Now that we know who the next President will be, I focused on talking to some experts about transition. They all offered some guidance about different angles of the upcoming transition, not just from President Bush to President Obama, but from this Congress to a new one, with new leaders and new committee heads.

John Palguta from the Partnership For Public Service offered some “dos and don’ts” for career executives in dealing with the transition teams and new political appointees that are coming to agencies soon.

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Joe Ferrara, Associate Dean at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a former SESer at the Pentagon, offered some advice for his former peers, and for the incoming transition staff that may never have dealt with the Senior Executive Service before.

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Larry Allen, President of the Coalition for Government Procurement, analyzed the Congressional elections and what changes at the tops of some Congressional committees might mean for the procurement community.

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Sarah Binder, a Political Science professor at George Washington University and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, talked about the news that broke as she came on the air that Henry Waxman will pursue the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and what that might mean for oversight of the agencies.

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