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We love to fire leaders. In business, it’s good for the stock. According to Burson-Marsteller, stock price appreciation of S&P 500 companies averages 1.5 percent on the announcement of a new CEO. And when the board fires the CEO, a company’s stock price increases 3 percent. Is it any wonder that leadership tenure has fallen […]
When the Presidential Personnel Office in January appointed Jeff Pon to be chief human capital officer at the Energy Department, Pon had mixed feelings about displacing the career executive in the position, Claudia Cross.
“I knew and respected Claudia as possibly the best human capital officer in the government,” he said. “But I came here because […]
Young Americans by the thousands followed President Kennedy’s inaugural advice in the 1960s and asked themselves what they could do for their country. Service in the federal government seemed like the perfect way to heed the president’s rallying call. Stoked by passionate rhetoric of service to humankind, idealistic twenty-somethings signed on for federal employment in […]
Anyone who has worked in government knows it’s not easy to get city, county and local agencies to agree on anything. Patricia Curtis has made a career of it.
Curtis, director of management information systems for Leon County, Fla., has spent the past 13 years building bridges across agency and jurisdictional lines previously deemed impassable, […]
