An audit found that the defense department paid the aerospace company $1.7 billion by July in spite of poor performance.

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Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a series from the National Academy of Public Administration looking at the challenges and urgency of modernizing the civil service. Find the Academy’s ...

As a nation we don’t like face to face criticism. We give off stink afterwards when our food is bad in a restaurant, buy typically just say a meek ‘it’s great’ or, brace yourself, ‘it’s fine’ when the ...

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Business leaders know that tolerating poor performance by employees is bad practice. But today’s labor market is so tight that replacing an employee is very difficult. What is a manager to do with ...

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