The Council for Excellence in Government has released the
“2004 Prune Book: Top Management Challenges for
Presidential Appointees,” that it says explains what
results-based management really means and the expectations
of these positions.
The counsel said the seventh volume in the Prune Book
series is also a guide to the resources available to help
these officials carry out the management challenges before
them–and partly focuses on the “mandates and central
strategies and mechanisms that drive the current approach
to federal management, focused on improving the return on
resources invested.”
The book covers the president’s management agenda and the
coordinating groups that it “frames,” such as the
President’s Management Council and Chief Information
Officers Council, and discusses the directives of the
management agenda and profiles the positions to which they
relate in federal agencies.
The council said that as in earlier editions, it draws on
individual interviews with current and recent senior
government officials. The book is available here:
