RELATED February 13, 2026 Partnership for Public Service’s public comments on OPM’s “Ensuring Consistent and Rigorous Standards for Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Programs” proposed rule January 29, 2026 Trump Posed an Existential Threat. This Nonpartisan Group Pushed Back January 29, 2026 A Culture of Fear: Leadership Deficits at Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Back to Reports How to Conquer Obstacles to Innovation and Drive Change July 17, 2018 Thinking of ways to improve how government works might be easy for federal leaders, but taking steps to actually implement such changes may seem impossible. Yet federal employees across the government are successfully taking these impossible steps to design and implement creative solutions, and to help agencies better fulfill their missions. In this resource, the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton hosted a roundtable discussion with federal executives and interviewed other government leaders to identify some of the challenges to innovation they faced and the solutions they employed to drive transformational change. Download (109k)