Management
Is Pay for Performance as Bad As the Critics Contend?
Howard Risher, Government Executive
Employees have any number of other reasons for stress at work.
Five myths of change management
Juli Dixon, Ben Marglin, Andrew Mason, Federal Computer Week
Why the federal government needs to fund change management efforts alongside IT modernization.

Collaboration
How Regional Partnerships Are Tapping Talent to Solve Public Problems
John Kamensky, Government Executive
Federal, state and local governments are working with universities to tackle things from opioid abuse to crumbling infrastructure.

Innovation
GSA’s Investment Team Is Building An Agile Development Contract
Aaron Boyd, Nextgov
The $10 million, single-award contract would assist in developing novel ideas to improve the federal government.
Bureaucracies as learning organizations
Steve Kelman, Federal Computer Week
The author offers an unexpected example of government committing to continuous improvement.