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Wanted: "Chief Performance Officer"
January 07, 2009 10:58 AM
President-elect Obama has just named the first-ever "Chief Performance Officer" for the U.S. Government. She is Nancy Killefer, Senior Director for McKinsey & Co., and she will be tasked with bringing greater efficiency to the way government works. How's that for a consulting project -- more efficiency, less waste, for the world's largest budget. Mr. Obama called Killefer "an expert in streamlining policies and wringing out inefficiencies."
We found a piece she co-authored a couple years back -- on just this topic. Perhaps an Obama aide happened to see it...?
January 7, 2009 in Inauguration, Obama, Barack | Permalink | Share | User Comments (4)
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Outstanding pick and tremendous post to bring into the federal government. Let's have government doing the best possible job it can with our money. It is long overdue that we had someone serving in this kind of oversight capacity for our sprawling federal budget.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | Jan 7, 2009 11:35:18 AM
Great idea.
This is the change we voted for and the change we really need "a highly effective government".
The military industrial complex will not be very happy with this as they are one of the most wasteful government agencies.
Posted by: Steve_NJ | Jan 7, 2009 12:07:30 PM
Oh good. That will take care of the bureaucracies, the paid off power brokers, the locked in crooked contracts, the dug-in politicos who will toast her in the first five minutes of conversation.
This is laughable....would be more so if it were so completely stupid of Bambi to (apparently) believe that we are going to just say "oh good".
He's playing a role. Remember Bambi is always just playing a role. For the next 48 months, he will be playing the role of POTUS and we will pay, in 48 monthly installments.
She is just a highly paid hall monitor.
Posted by: Ann | Jan 7, 2009 12:24:30 PM
This seems all too familiar. Each new President wants to stamp out waste,
cut the fat: trim the budget, etc.,etc.
It will all look good on paper, indeed.
When the time comes to fat trimming, every agency will cry, "No, not us. People need us." Then each senator will hear from their people in each state how the government is threatening them.
Each senator will then fight it tooth and nail. That is the way the ball always bounces.
I hope some good could come out of this.
I'm rooting for this to work.
However, unless human nature has changed, I suspect it will work only in limited ways.
Posted by: it will be good only if it works | Jan 7, 2009 11:53:21 PM
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