Federal Managers Association

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• A Management Agenda for 2025 and beyond: Pivoting from outcomes to results - September 9, 2024

• The views expressed are the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Managers Association.

  When it comes to creating a government that solves the country’s big problems, the people just don’t believe it’s happening. Here’s how to fix that.

  Donald F. Kettl, Government Executive

  The new president will have a mighty big chore in the spring of 2025: devising a new management agenda.
  
  The people just don’t think government works for them. Harris and Trump supporters agreed on one thing in a recent poll: exactly 52% of both groups said the country had big problems—and that they were unfixable.

  Moreover, for the last 30 years, presidents have tried to improve the way the federal government works. They’ve reinvented government, set up traffic lights to measure success, bunched programs into categories to improve efficiency, and worked across silos.
  
  Despite all this work, however, we haven’t boosted the public’s trust in government to do what is right. Back in 1994, that number stood at 19%. At the end of 2023, it was . . . 19%.

  To read the full piece, click here.

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