Uncommon Leadership – The new Executive Order is right to push the government to fixed-price contracting. Too many programs still reward activity over outcomes, hours over results, and process over mission impact. But a fixed-price model will not fix that on its own. The fixed- price model works. But it fails when agencies treat fixed-price as a contracting form rather than an operating model. If agencies treat fixed-price as a paperwork change rather than a management discipline, they will recreate the same failures under a new contract type.
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