Want to reform the federal government? Start with career execs : Government Executive , January 7 , 2025
January 7, 2025
Government Executive
From the article: "Want to reform the federal government’s vast bureaucracy? Start at the top, with the Senior Executive Service. They set the tone—they personify the “trickle down” theory in organizations—but how to make them more responsive AND more efficient and effective? That is the question, and it will take more than a Schedule F to do so. It will require rethinking and “reforming” just how those execs are developed, promoted, deployed, rewarded, and retained.
No easy lift, but in so doing, we might just realize the original vision of the SES, first articulated by the late President Jimmy Carter and the principal architect of his civil service reforms, Scottie Campbell (the first OPM Director, as well as a friend and mentor), may they both rest in peace. They envisioned a mobile corps of senior career leaders moving purposefully across the whole of government—at the behest of the American citizens they were sworn to serve—to deal with its most interconnected, endemic, “wicked” problems."
Authors - Sanders, Ronald
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