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The Performance Institute’s Jon Desenberg was recently featured prominently in a Government Executive Magazine article on Performance Procurement

For several years now, the Bush administration has touted performance-based acquisition as its preferred method of procusing services from the private sector. According to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget, agencies are on board with the initiative, using the technique for approximately 45 percent of their services contracts, compared ith 26 percent in 2001. Acquisition experts, however, say the picture is not quite as rosy as it appears.

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GSA Struggles to Right the Ship
By Matthew Weigelt | March 6, 2006


To woo agencies back, GSA must show value in using its contract vehicles, said Carl DeMaio , president of the Performance Institute.

Feds Train to Achieve Six Sigma Results
By Sara Michael | October 3, 2005

Carl DeMaio, president of The Performance Institute, said Six Sigma's success in the private sector is a good indicator that the federal government will.

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Payband Balancing Act
By Brittany R. Ballenstedt | June 2007

Jon Desenberg, consulting director for performance management at the Performance Institute, a group based in Washington, D.C., and San Diego, said his organization is working on a set of recommendations for the next presidential administration, one of which advises the government to de-emphasize the link between performance and pay.

"I think there's a lot of merit in really understanding what engages people," Desenberg said. "That ties to how they are engaged to their work, what helps them get promoted, and most importantly, what helps them get better and more interesting assignments. Pay is not the issue."

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OMB to Push Performance Pay Government Wide in '05
By Tim Kauffman | January 3, 2005

Civil service reform took a big step forward with the personnel management reforms Congress approved for senior executives, said Carl DeMaio, president of the Arlington, Va.-based Performance Institute, a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving government results.

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San Diego Playing a Blame Game;
As multiple probes of the pension crisis go forward, finger-pointing is rampant. Some observers fear that bankruptcy is possible

By E. Scott Reckard | May 1, 2005

The city has been in an utter state of paralysis for more than a year," said Carl DeMaio, president of the Performance Institute in San Diego, a nonpartisan think tank. He said his group began advising the city on how to deal with state budget cuts last year, and gradually realized the problems were far worse than described at that time.

If we don't take immediate action, the city of San Diego will be forced into bankruptcy," he said.

Fall From Frugality Puts San Diego on Fiscal Brink
By Tony Perry | August 1, 2004

We found that the emperor has no clothes," said Carl DeMaio, executive director of the San Diego-based Performance Institute, a Libertarian think tank, studying the city's budget and budgeting process.

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Fiscal Chicanery City 's Budget Practices Alarm Wall Street
Editoral Page | April 10, 2004

In a report last month, Carl DeMaio, president of The Performance Institute, a San Diego-based think tank, aptly described the sales tax accrual as "phantom" revenue.Now that Moody's Investors Service has raised the same alarm, perhaps City Hall will begin to listen.

Six-figure Salaries Soar in City Work Force
Carl DeMaio | March 12, 2006

"Have you heard about the fire captain in the city of San Diego who made $242,138 in one year? How about the city lifeguard who made $138,787? It's all true - and if you thought the city of San Diego's pensions were generous, wait until you see how much some city workers are being paid."

2008 Press Releases & Media Clips
04/08

Government Executive - Pay Potential

02/08

Federal News Radio - The Importance of Career Feds

02/08

Government Executive - Career officials called key to management reform initiatives

02/08

Government Executive - Agencies urged to avoid generational stereotypes

02/08

Federal Computer Week - DHS seeks new workforce formula

02/08

Federal Computer Week - Panel: Management agenda in feds' hands

01/08

Government Executive - Performance Procurement

2007 Press Releases & Media Clips
07/07

Press Release - Senior Consultant, Jon Desenberg, to Speak at Actuate Conference

06/07

Government Executive - Payband Balancing Act

04/07

SafeNowProject - Carl DeMaio Joins Board of Directors of SAFENOWPROJECT

03/07

Press Release - Institute Issues Overall Performance Management Award to Miami-Dade County, FL

03/07

Press Release -Institute Issues Transparent Budget Award to City of Henderson, NV

01/07

Press Release - Transitions In Governance Town Hall Dialogue Announced

01/07

Federal Computer Week - How Labor Stays Green

01/07

Federal Computer Week - Peek at 2008 Reveals Homeland Security Focus

01/07

GovExec.com - Budget Proposal to Detail Benefits of IT Consolidation

01/07

Voice of Sandiego - Real Budget Process Reform By Carl DeMaio

01/07

Voice of Sandiego - Retirement Costs Piped into Water, Sewer Hikes

01/07

Voice of Sandiego - Under Sanders, Water Could Go Private

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