Transition 2016 Op-Ed: Striving for Excellence in Federal Management

In less than four months, the Presidential campaigns will end and speculation will immediately focus on who will staff the new Administration. But management issues? They’re unlikely to get much attention. That is, until they bite, as every Administration discovers, to its distress. To amend a phrase often employed, policy without good management is an invitation to political disaster and the reversal of the very policy objectives the Administration prizes.