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Management in the Obama Era

Managing the Government The new leadership team at the Office of Management and Budget is starting to form. Today a veteran of OMB’s management arm talked...

Federal News Network Staff

December 12, 2008 7:38 pm

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Managing the Government

The new leadership team at the Office of Management and Budget is starting to form. Today a veteran of OMB’s management arm talked about what the Obama team has to look forward to. Robert Shea, Director of the Global Public Sector at Grant Thornton and former Associate Director for Administration and Government Performance at OMB, also told me about the elements of the President’s Management Agenda and PART.

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College of Web 2.0 Knowledge

Our resident Web 2.0 guru, Chris Dorobek, helped me introduce a new series on In Depth, “Chris Dorobek’s College of Web 2.0 Knowledge.” We want to teach you which web 2.0 applications will help you do your job better, and fulfill your agency’s mission more efficiently. Today Chris and I talked about the overall web 2.0 world.

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Securing the Homeland Security Department

The appointment of Janet Napolitano is being generally hailed in the homeland security community. One former DHS official applauding the selection is Scott Weber, Senior Counselor to the Secretary at DHS from 2005 to 2006, and now a partner at Patton Boggs. Scott told me about some of the challenges the new DHS head will have, including over 80 Congressional committees with oversight power.

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Make More Money…Now!

There are a lot of myths out there about Federal jobs. You can’t negotiate salaries, you can’t get raises more than once a year, and many others. Lily Whiteman, author of “How To Land A Top-Paying Federal Job” and host of IGotTheJob.net, dispelled some of the most common Federal job myths, and offered advice on how you can make more money NOW!

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