Presidential Management Capacity to Respond to 21st Century Challenges

NAPA’s Standing Panel on Executive Organization and Management undertook an initiative in early 2006 to assess the existing management capacities of the President.  This included the institutional resources of the Executive Office of the President, as well as the use of non-institutional approaches such as governors’ task forces, use of the bully pulpit, etc.  Based on its findings and assessments, individual panel members have led the development of a series of issue papers offering options for improving these capacities in order that the next President can more effectively address 21st century challenges. 

Over the past two years, the panel identified a series of issues, held panel meetings on each issue, and a lead writer developed an associated issue paper. These papers were then peer reviewed. 

Here is a summary overview of the papers:

Overview of Issues Papers

Following are each of the individual papers:

Broad Governance Issues

• "Principles, Values, and Assumptions Underlying 'Good Public Management'"
  by John Kamensky
  

Institutional Management Capacity of the Executive Office of the President

• "The President Needs Help: A Proposed Office of Federal Management" by Ronald C. Moe
  
  
•  “A Modernized Office of Executive Management:  An Option for Making the ‘M’ in OMB a Reality” by Dwight Ink
  
  
• “The President Must Develop a Strong Capacity to Meet Executive Organization Requirements” by Dwight Ink and Herbert Jasper
  
  
• “Presidential Management Relationships with Departments and Agencies” by Charles F. Bingman
  
  
• “Crisis Management” by Dwight Ink  
  
  
•  “The President’s Intergovernmental Management Agenda” by Bruce McDowell
  
  
• “Improving Collaboration by Federal Agencies: An Essential Priority for the Next Administration” by Thomas Stanton 
  

Management Tools Used by the Executive Office of the President

• "Governing with Foresight: Institutional Changes to Enhance Fact-Based Decision-Making in the Executive Office of the President" by John Kamensky
  
  
• “Strengthening the Government's Budgeting and Financial Management Capacity”
  by F. Stevens Redburn and Phillip Joyce
  
  
• “Strategic Management of Human Capital in the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government,” by Doris Hausser
  
  
• “Government By Contract: The White House Needs Capacity to Review and Revise the Legacy of 20th Century Reform” by Dan Guttman 
  
  
• “The Legislative Clearance Process” by Bernard Martin
  
  
• “Federal Regulations: Development, Review, and Approval Processes” by Mary Ann Troanovitch

Note:  Additional issue papers will be added as they become available.