The agreements lay out, in written form, a publicly available vision of the agencies' goals and mission. We believe that the best way for the federal executive to fulfill the traditional role of implementing the will of the President is to share those expectations explicitly with every single employee in the organization. But, in order to perform their role successfully, federal executives must surmount two major hurdles. But the movement to reinvent government is grounded in big changes that are remaking all sectors of the economy. If federal executives let cynicism stand in the way of change, they will face more and more hostility from an ever more cynical public.
Many federal employees find security in the existing work culture.
It has set forth the status and reward structure to which they have long since accommodated themselves. This structure limits individual accountability and protects against change. And so, today, I offer this challenge to federal executives in this room and throughout the workforce. This Administration supports the changes you have asked for. But we can't achieve it simply by making a report.