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But federal executives can be the most shackled to bureaucracy, celebrated for successes but also held responsible when programs go bad \u2013 particularly if those programs strayed from the same old way of doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when executives are willing to push the envelope themselves to improve how their agencies function, while also providing top cover for the teams that implement change or the individuals that proposed the change from the start, it&#8217;s worth celebrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/app.keysurvey.com\/votingmodule\/VOTING3\/f\/1016144\/1db5\/?msig=daedef884f6b49f6e6fd9e7c4fbf7e15\" target=\"_blank\">NOMINATE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winners of the Vanguard Executive\u00a0of the Year awards demonstrate the leadership needed to drive change. They recognize the potential of a shift from the usual way of doing things. They are willing to push back against bureaucracy to ensure the best ideas, whether their own or that of their team, don&#8217;t whither on the vine. They also are all in \u2013 providing the engagement and the resources needed to accomplish the task and maximize the odds for success. And when that success happens, they share the lessons learned \u2013 good and bad \u2013 to allow others in their agency and beyond to repeat and improve upon the approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply put, these are feds that get it \u2013 feds that implement change not because regulation says they must, but because the potential return makes the prospect impossible to resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Federal Programs of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agencies and industry work in partnership all the time, but every year a few programs stand out as especially successful collaborations. These are programs that build powerful synergies between the organizations involved, that find new solutions to longstanding problems and that transform the government and the nation for the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winners of the Vanguard Federal Program of the Year awards are examples of ideal partnerships between agencies and the private-sector. They are the teams who were not afraid to buck tradition and try something different. They are the leaders who organized their personnel in novel ways, to good effect. 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