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Public Servant Pulse: A National Survey of US State and Local Employees The People Lab Nearly 5,000 public servants from 1,300 local governments and all 50 state governments participated in this annual nationally representative survey of state and local employees. … Continue reading →

Making Performance Data Matter to Elected Officials Barrett & Greene (Obed Pasha) The author asked elected representatives and recently retired managers to help develop recommendations for local government managers seeking to gain elected officials’ support for performance management. They identified ten strategies. A … Continue reading →

Performance Management: A Multi-Prong Approach IBM Center for The Business of Government (Barrett & Greene) For many years, people have been using the words performance management as a sort of synonym for performance measurement. . . for years, there was … Continue reading →

Pennsylvania’s Dark Board Governing A Pennsylvania state board created by law in 2017 to review billions of dollars in tax credits and government spending quietly stopped meeting three years ago and board members won’t say why. The HoCo Dash Board … Continue reading →

The Path to a Results-Forward Budget Barrett & Greene (blog by Laura Larsen) For decades, budget season has followed a familiar script: departments submit requests based on what they received last year, finance and budget teams look for places to … Continue reading →