Federal Government Policy and Business

Managing Government as a Talent Driven Organization

Government Executive: Two books published this month directly relate to the goal of improving performance. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey co-authored with Ori Brafman, Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership. Three prominent consultants drafted the second, Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First. The books focus on very different but complementary subjects central to raising workforce performance levels.

Maybe it’s a coincidence, but also this month the Office of Personnel Management finally got its new director, Jeff Tien Han Pon, the first director in decades with solid HR credentials. The authors of Talent Wins argue the reinvention of HR should be a critical priority. That is now more important in government than in any other sector.

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