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John M. Kamensky
@john-m-kamensky.bsky.social
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Forgotten but not gone . . . retired government reinventor with a passion for helping create a government that is results-oriented, performance-based, customer-driven, and collaborative in nature.
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Policymaking, reviews, performance tracker: Curated articles, Nov 17-23, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/43RQYvU
Accountability and Performance Update – Nov 17-23, 2025
Learning Agendas Bring Evidence Into Policymaking Federation of American Scientists Evidence-based policymaking is not just about policy that draws on science, it’s about how decisions are made, ev…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Progress, goals, value, strategy: curated articles, Nov 10-16, 2025, @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/3M7ycdC
Accountability and Performance Update – Nov 10 – 16, 2025
Four Ways to Measure Progress LinkedIn – Stacey Barr (Australia) Leaders know how essential it is to demonstrate if the time, money and effort being spent is having the intended impact on the organ…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Finding, bridging, taking: curated articles, Nov 3-9, 2025
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Accountability and Performance Update – Nov 3 – 9, 2025
Finding Leading vs. Lagging Indicators LinkedIn (Ayca Tumer Arikan) In many cases, key performance indicators tell us what happened, but not what’s going to happen. The real power in measurement li…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Responding, embedding, dashboarding: curated articles, Oct 27-Nov 2, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/47xxoGc
Accountability and Performance Update – Oct 27-Nov 2, 2025
Responding to Response Times Barrett & Greene For emergency services, every moment can spell the difference between a minor incident and a crippling injury or a death. To the general public, fa…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Do's/Don'ts, Performance, New Book - curated articles, Oct 20-26, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4nrBqG3
Accountability and Performance Update – Oct 20-26, 2025
Strengthening Performance Management Barrett & Greene Here’s a recap of Do’s and Don’ts in strengthening performance management systems, based on the last Urban Institute report by the late Har…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Announcing the Recoding America Fund! It's time to update the operating model of government. eatingpolicy.substack.com/p/announcing...
Announcing the Recoding America Fund
A bipartisan reckoning with the administrative state
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October 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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AI, accountability, outcome-based: curated articles, Oct 13-19, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/42P8UGY
Accountability and Performance Update – Oct 13-19, 2025
AI Auditing AI – Toward Digital Accountability ASPA-CAP Webinar (Wed., Oct 22, 1 p.m. Eastern) As AI increasingly influences critical areas such as policing, hiring, health care, finance and cybers…
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October 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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RCT problems? Curated article, Oct 6-12, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/4od8ceF
Accountability and Performance Update – Oct 6-12, 2025
NonProfits Have an RCT Problem Stanford Social Innovation Review (open access) Randomized controlled trials are touted as the benchmark for evaluating social programs. The social sector should…
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October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Recommendations, audits, KPIs - curated articles, Sept 29 - Oct 5, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/46SVCdv
Accountability and Performance Update – Sept 29 – Oct 5, 2025
Implementing Performance Management Recommendations U.S. Government Accountability Office Agencies and OMB have implemented most recommendations GAO made related to the implementation of the Govern…
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October 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Performance Summit, collaborative governance: curated articles, week of Sept 15-21, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/46wQo7f
Accountability and Performance Update – Sept 15-21, 2025
The “Performance Counts” Summit Government Executive The best ideas in government performance don’t always start in Washington. They come from state capitols, city halls and county offices, places …
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September 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Congrats to @oecd-ocde.bsky.social on its new report on the uses of #AI in government - more than 200 use cases! oecd.ai/en/gov
AI in Government: Overview
Governments are one of the most important adopters of artificial intelligence (AI) and yet, they are also one of the most cautious. This tension isn’t merely organisational inertia—it reflects governm...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Birthday, systems, training materials: curated articles, Sept 8-14, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4nwVCGW
Accountability and Performance Update – Sept 8-14, 2025
Happy Birthday to a Performance Pioneer Barrett & Greene Terrell Blodgett, who turns 102 today (Sept 15), is one of the pioneers of the modern-day adoption and use of performance management at …
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September 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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AI, Evaluation, & Accountability - curated articles, Sept 1-7, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4m4xhak
Accountability and Performance Update – Sept 1-7, 2025
Using AI to Make the Most of Evidence Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development To make a more effective use of evaluation reports, Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs developed&nb…
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September 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Framework, dashboard, index: curated articles, Aug 25-31, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/3USwNZV
Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 25-31, 2025
Happy Labor Day! Enjoy the beginning of Fall. Updated Federal Performance Framework U.S. Office of Management and Budget The federal performance framework is in “Part 6” of OMB’s annually updated b…
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September 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Impact-driven, measurable, StatGPT: curated articles, Aug 18-24, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4fXjNMb
Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 18-24, 2025
Making Performance Measurable Government Executive (Op-Ed: Willie Patterson) The concept of trust but verify in leadership has two essential elements. Trust means showing confidence in your te…
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August 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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NEW: Trump Exec Order creates a "National Design Studio" headed by a "Chief Design Officer." Does this replace the old US Digital Service, the federal Customer Experience team, & 18F? bit.ly/464BMwE
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Improves our Nation Through Better Design
IMPROVING GOVERNMENT SERVICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to launch the “America by Design” initiative, establishing the
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August 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Decisionmaking & Dataphobia - curated articles, Aug 11-17, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/45Dun63
Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 11-17, 2025
Value of Evidence-Based Decisionmaking PATimes Even in agencies that vocally support evidence-based decision-making and use one of the decision-making modalities described in the article, there exi…
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August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Navigating, implementing, linking: curated articles, Aug 4-10, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/4oCmeI6
Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 4 – 10 2025
Navigating Nonprofit Scandals: Audit’s Role in Accountability.  Center for Accountability & Performance (Free Webinar, Tuesday, Aug 12, 1 p.m. Eastern) This webinar will focus on the crit…
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August 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Optimizing, aligning, lynchpins: curated articles, July 28 - Aug 3, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4lUidg8
Accountability and Performance Update – July 28 – Aug 3, 2025
Optimizing Performance Using Values-Based Management National Academy of Public Administration This white paper outlines a strategic, four-step framework to help agencies sustain and improve perfor…
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August 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Tips, validating, tracking, building: curated articles, July 221-27, 2025 - @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/4lJoN9f
Accountability and Performance Update – July 21-27, 2025
Ten Tips for Better Performance Management Barrett & Greene During the last three (plus) decades, Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene have seen a number of flaws crop up in the performance man…
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July 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Thanks to @donkettl.bsky.social, Elaine Lu, @ijpa2022.bsky.social, and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for memorializing the first 30 years of the Government Performance and Results Act in a nicely bound book!
July 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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N. Carolina's Benchmarking Status Report 2025: curated item, week of July 14-20, 2025 - @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance: aspacap.com/2025/07/21/a...
Accountability and Performance Update – July 14-20, 2025
Benchmarking Project Report 2025 School of Government, University of N. Carolina The North Carolina Benchmarking Project was established in 1995 so that participating municipalities could comp…
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July 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Purposeful planning; Peak performance: curated articles, July 7-13, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/3GxHzRH
Accountability and Performance Update – July 7-13, 2025
Toward Purposeful Strategic Planning Science Direct (Bert George) Research on strategic planning crosses disciplines ranging from management and public administration to healthcare, urban plan…
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July 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Manage, assess, scorecard: curated articles, June 30 - July 6, 2025 - @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - aspacap.com/2025/07/07/a...
Accountability and Performance Update – June 30 – July 6, 2025
“No Better Way to Manage Performance” Government Executive (Op-Ed – Howard Risher) The U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s new performance management guidance looks to refine how federa…
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July 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Would the criteria described in the new DOJ memo prioritizing denaturalization of citizens (bit.ly/44HNtZE) allow a future Administration to fast track removal of Melania Trump per 2016 AP report (bit.ly/44r8bLT) she may have “willfully misrepresented or concealed facts relevant to naturalization.”
Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa
Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that she worked in the seven weeks before her attorney says she had legal permission to work in the country, according to...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM