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Management

Government leaders and managers just appointed or promoted to their position face many challenges. When the administration is new, when the agency or office mission has been problematic in the past, and when the overall charge is transformation, the challenge of the first few days is to understand the current goals, functions, metrics, and inevitable political demands. The new leader must then begin to meet as many current managers, team leaders, staff, frontline employees, partners, and stakeholders as possible. In the federal government, there is great pressure to hit the ground running. Decisions about how to structure the leadership team, prioritize programs, run the organization, respond to glaring problems, build ...

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