The federal agility fix: Developing the next generation of leaders

In response, the Office of Personnel Management and human capital officers have implemented a number of initiatives to improve the hiring process (Llorens 2009) and undertaken significant efforts to compete with the private sector for future leaders (Ritz and Waldner 2011). However, the sheer scale of the public sector’s talent problem underscores the need for more innovative thinking and new models for speeding up the assessment and selection of senior executives.