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Byline: Timothy B. Clark There's nothing quite like a magazine-with its text and headlines and photos and charts and graphs and sense of humor-to tell a story. Government Executive has [...]

Remarks delivered at the HR transitions 2002 conference seeking new words to express this generation's thoughts on the meaning of 9/11 and its portent for the future. Forum Introduction In [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark For 35 years, American University's School of Public Affairs has conferred a public service award named after the late Roger W. Jones, an exemplary civil servant [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Europe seems a world away to many of us, but during a visit in late May I found continuing affection for Americans and gratitude for what [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark The Makers and the Takers, a memorable phrase from last year's Republican playbook, contrasted those who invent things, build businesses and create jobs with those who [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Sheila Bair has been hitting the airwaves of late, telling NBC's David Gregory and other interviewers about what she learned during her five-year term as the [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark If government is broken, as many believe, then what can be done to fix it? For one wide-ranging set of answers, we can turn to the [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Soon after the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979, an American delegation visited the region to reassure Saudi Arabia and other nearby states that [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark What could happen to American government if conservatives build on their 2010 electoral triumph by winning the White House in 2012? Answers to that question have [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Is government sounding the sirens of retreat? Not necessarily. With our politics so bitter, it may be counterintuitive to think that a new public era is [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark A general's tale of Afghan challenges. Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller is an engaging, good-humored man who loved his role as chief of security forces training in [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark The stimulus program's transparency avoided all but one big scandal. What has government learned from its experience with the stimulus program of 2009, the largest package [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark States offer reality check on how much government people want. If excellence in government is the goal people seek, then how can one measure whether we [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Reining in the regulators is one way politicians curry favor with key supporters. If you wanted to telegraph the tone of an upcoming congressional hearing, it [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Two early champions for better government, once more into the fray. Paul C. Light, the longtime crusader for government reform, likes to joke that his writings [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark How important is soft power to our nation's security? 'More than any other secretary of Defense,' Robert Gates told the Notre Dame graduating class this spring, [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Adm. Mullen says military institutions must be built around the needs of their people. At both the beginning and the end of a 90-minute interview last [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Can a systemwide shuffling help us 'win the future?' Perhaps reflecting the economic malaise that still afflicts many Americans, President Obama has taken to saying that [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Report on economic crisis shows the power of politics in regulatory affairs. The recently released official report on the nation's financial crisis tells a powerful tale [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Costly fixes for the economy and health care won't work without difficult trade-offs. Sustainability, that six-syllable mouthful of a word, is breaking out of its corner [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Adm. Mike Mullen is an articulate advocate of U.S. policies abroad. It's too bad Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is not [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Are federal executives as good as a new survey suggests? In the run-up to the Oct. 5 Excellence in Government Conference, Government Executive unveiled a study [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Watching Washington's shenanigans from 750 miles away. Dramatic developments in our national life have the media closely focused on Washington: our first African-American president, government's response [...]

Failures in government can teach us how to succeed. Ever since the United States landed a man on the moon in 1969, people have asked themselves why this amazing feat [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Productivity gains can help with the fiscal pickle. C-SPAN's Steve Scully: 'You know the numbers - $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark British politicians and American corporate titans are targets of the public's wrath. Britain was abuzz in June with a parliamentary scandal that all but knocked Scotland's [...]

What does it take to protect the American public? The swine flu that swept the world this spring posed challenges to the public sector that find remarkable precedent in a [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark High profits fuel criminal and terrorist groups that threaten American security. In Mexico and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, President Obama made dramatic moves this spring to shore [...]

The president is on a quest to reconcile his ambitions with available dollars. A longtime student of administration budgets cannot help but be impressed by the sweeping vision President Obama [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Let's not forget it's the civil service that makes 'change' happen. With clear popular and electoral vote victories, hugely favorable ratings in the polls, and a [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Is the 'greed is good' era coming to an end? In reaction to the nation's financial crisis, government has begun a transformation that could usher in [...]

Broad bromides should give way to a focus on key priorities. Should Barack Obama unveil a formal governmentwide management agenda, as have other recent presidents, and if so, what should [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Baltimore's CitiStat holds agencies' feet to the fire. In September, the Office of Management and Budget released its final evaluation of the performance of federal programs. [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Conservation leaders battle 'nature-deficit disorder.' Acadia National Park, Maine - Will today's children inherit the conservation ethic that created this beautiful national park and others like [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark In Maine, many players make Acadia hum. Mount Desert Island, Maine - For Sheridan Steele, superintendent of Acadia National Park, and Marla O'Byrne, president of a [...]

The citizen sector's path to a better world. To make the world a better place, many people for many years saw government as the employer of choice. Government remains the [...]

Invest and grow - or should we rein in our spending desires? With the Bush administration in full lame-duck mode, every important group in Washington is focusing on the upcoming [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Two scholars assess the state of the federal system. One might hope this year's election will bring new beginnings: a fresh look at the programs, structures [...]

New tools are needed to measure progress toward critical goals. Americans love to keep score, as the new baseball season reminds us. There's a statistic for everything in baseball, and [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Celebrating achievement among leaders of the Senior Executive Service. Winners of the annual Presidential Rank Awards are among the public sector's highest achievers, men and women [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Workplace problems aren't at the heart of the challenge. In January, the nonprofit Ethics Resource Center offered a stark warning about growing misconduct in government. 'We [...]

Living for today, not building for tomorrow. Just as Congress was racing to kick $150 billion in fiscal stimulus money out the door last month - pushing the projected 2008 [...]

And now, a new steward of Government Executive's mission. In recent years, radio frequency identification has been the hot technology - holding the promise of precise tracking of complex military [...]

We give our own grades to President Bush's management record. For many years, public administration scholars lamented the demise of the 'M' in OMB. Management was no longer a priority [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark The Air Force and the rest of government face budget woes. 'Desperate for Money' is the headline we chose for our feature in this issue about [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Are subsidies really required to get the workforce we need? For years, the tag line on our front cover has characterized Government Executive as 'Government's Business [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Is seeking to 'win' hazardous to the Army's long-term health? Significant policy shifts in the U.S. commitment to Iraq have been kicked down the road a [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark By the numbers, government can get better. One of the best known public sector accountability efforts is Baltimore's CitiStat program. It assembles detailed data about the [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark We have it today, and probably tomorrow. All the hand-wringing and knee-jerk responses to the tragic collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis in August [...]

Byline: Timothy B. Clark Taking stock of government's buying surge. Years ago, Government Executive bought a small magazine called Military Logistics Forum, which started an annual accounting of Defense Department [...]