Houston Keene, Washington Times
Running a business requires a steady hand and an open mind. Managers need patience, grace and understanding for their employees. However, patience, grace and understanding are three things easily taken advantage of by those with ulterior motives, and the federal government is not immune to them.
In the professional world, your performance in your role typically determines a lot about your future in said role. If you excel at what you do, are on time every day and bring in new business, the odds are that you will get promoted or at least have longevity. When an employee does the opposite, consequences follow, and when bloat hits a company and it’s time to trim fat, layoffs occur. This is basic business practice, something the federal government should be knowledgeable about but has repeatedly proved to be ignorant of.
We are now seeing the implementation of these baseline approaches within our federal government with the streamlining of agencies and departments such as the Department of Health and Human Services.