ABSTRACT
Whether you are a government executive or a government executive-in-training, chances are you are recognized as an expert in whatever program or project you’ve been asked to lead. You may have spent years building your reputation, either by working your way “through and up” the government-in related programs at ever higher levels-or by your academic or private sector efforts that eventually led to an offer to come into the government. This is true whether your subject is energy or defense or affordable housing or finance or anything else related to something the government spends money doing.
