HeyJaredKatherine Barrett
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Aug 27, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Governing
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 13, 2026
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The Power of Performance Audits (opens the original)
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We recently were in a conversation with a couple of smart local-government observers, and we mentioned that our work relied regularly on performance audits. The conversation took place on Zoom and so we were able to tell that our words seemed to be a bit mystifying to them.That led us to a few polite queries, which uncovered the sad truth — they were pretty much unaware of the existence of performance audits altogether.We believe, modestly, that we may make as good or better use of performance a
The Underappreciated Value of the Exit Interview (opens the original)
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In many cities, counties and states, human resources departments traditionally require that departing employees do exit interviews before they walk out the door for the last time. Sometimes this involves filling out a simple form and elsewhere there’s a brief conversation involved.One of the potential benefits of these exercises is to help cut down on turnover, by fixing any problems that led to a departure.But, ultimately, how useful are these efforts? From what we’ve been able to tell, often t
What Governments Gained in Managing Through a Pandemic (opens the original)
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There was a long sad stretch during which nearly everything we wrote had some kind of COVID angle in it. The pandemic had so thoroughly thrown all state and local government functions into the unknown that whether we were writing about budgeting, human resources or performance management, COVID was part of the story.Now, in recent months, it’s dawned on us that even though COVID is no longer front-page news, it has altered state and local government management in dramatic ways that we’re living
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