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OPM to New Execs: Back Bush's Plans
 By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, February 13, 2008  |  08:26 AM

There may be less than a year left in the Bush administration, but the Office of Personnel Management still has a singular message for new members of the Senior Executive Service: It's all about implementing the President's Management Agenda. The agency is continuing to send out invitations to its regularly scheduled orientation sessions on the president's plans for new SES members.

The briefings, writes OPM Director Linda M. Springer in the invitation, provide an opportunity for the newly minted execs to "learn about the President’s Management Agenda, his vision and values, and to discuss the unique challenges you face with your new responsibilities. As a new member of the SES, you will play a key role in turning President Bush’s principles of a citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based government into reality."

The SESers better be prepared to move quickly. The next session isn't until the end of March, and come next January, there's likely to be a whole new management agenda.



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Can someone please tell me how anyone can rise to the Senior Executive ranks during this administration and NOT have heard about PMA? Where have they been all this time...in the private sector? :)

Curious About Quals  | Thursday, February 14, 2008 |  01:48 PM


If the SESers are anything like the ones I've encountered in SSA, they won't understand any of the concepts anyway. It will be like trying to teach Calculus to a first-grader.

Management is about leadership and people...period. If one has these traits, which cannot be learned, any other principles will take care of themselves.

Anonymous  | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |  06:16 PM


Pres. Bush's principles have RESULTED in a higher national deficit, less enforcement of law (manipulation of Internal Revenue, Environmental Protection, FBI, and other enforcement agencies), more contract fraud, more rip-offs to the taxpayers by privatization, and other croniism-driven expenses for the American citizens (this must be the "citizen-centered" principle). Do your homework on the topic of "market-based" initiatives and government interference. This approach has cost taxpayers millions, with millions more to be paid, while LIMITING competition in the market place through preferential treatment for generous constituents. OPM needs to find the independent strength and intellect to do what is right to make government as fair and productive as The People expect it to be.

bob  | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |  03:05 PM


Implementing the President's Management Agenda? Come on now. 1 years time will not get ANYTHING even close to completion. They just want them started, so they look good going out the door. As you can tell, I will work for a team, BUT when I see something is unattainable, I will stand up for what is the right thing to do. You can also see I will never make the SES level because of this, BUT I still have my integrity when I go home at night.

iggy  | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |  09:19 AM



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