Opinion


Managing with courage

I am writing this column fresh from a fascinating experience teaching a group of Senior Executive Service (SES) managers in an executive education class at Harvard University

Fudging on fees

Since 1995, the General Services Administration has financed its schedule purchasing program through the collection of a 1 percent (soon to be 0.75 percent) Industrial Funding Fee (IFF)

Advice to contractors: Be compliant

Companies are often reluctant to look at how well they comply with federal contract requirements

'Bundling' confusion

Contract bundling seems to be a difficult issue for people to understand.

Small-business confusion

Commentary: Contractors should be alert to the possibility that the subcontracting plan flow-down requirement could find its way into their subcontracting plans

Making teams work

Commentary: Teams have a greater chance of being successful if clear, motivating goals are articulated

The $5 million question

Commentary: E-government demands innovative appropriations approaches

Primer on high performance

Social capital in organizations builds through everyday interactions.

Leadership counts

A relationship of trust, accountability and predictability between the public and private sectors is essential.

A surging, chaotic power

Poised to overtake China as the world's most populous country, India has entered the 21st century with great potential and challenges

International cybercrime treaty advances slowly

Early this month, I was a witness at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee hearing on its draft treaty on cybercrime.

Championing share-in-savings contracts

At the recent Federal 100 gala, I ran into Ken Buck of the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, who received an award for his work promoting the use of shareinsavings contracting for information technology systems. Not surprisingly, Ken was in a good mood. The Fed 100 accolade no doubt helped raise his spirits for what has been a tough haul.