I see three levels of integrity. Soon after someone learns that integrity is keeping your promises, they reason that if they don’t make any promises, they can have perfect integrity. Then they discover nobody cares. Some never go beyond. The next step is to make and keep appropriate promises, depending on what you can handleRead… Read more »
Suicide Prevention is Everybody’s Business By Mike Moldeven. This posting is FYI, but constructive comments will be appreciated: it’s my practice to occasionally excerpt content from ‘The Weekly Spark,’ published and e-distributed by the ‘Suicide Prevention Resource Center,’ associated with SAMHSA. Content of SPARK is such that it deserves wide dissemination to personnel, businesses, andRead… Read more »
As designers and visual communicators, we should do better to consciously recognize the communicative value of icons and symbols. Designers are a curious breed of people: we are creators, inquisitive leaders, thinkers, and ponderers of how we can spark change through the process of design, and how we can improve communication and understanding through whatRead… Read more »
Agencies that implement an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system are typically losers-but in a good way! The whole reason to implement an ECM system is to lose the waste while gaining efficiency. Below are five things you can kiss goodbye when your ECM system comes online: Wasting Time: How much time does your current processRead… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from The Free PMP Exam Simulator at http://free.pm-exam-simulator.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— A project manager wants to display and communicate the results of PERT and Critical Path analysis in a simple chart that can be readily understood by those who are notRead… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Analyst Chris Cotner reports. This is part two of a two-part series on INPUT’s 10-year state budget projections. As mentioned in part one of this series, the news regarding state financials has not been positive for a while. FY 2012 is looking like one of the worst (in terms of a decrease inRead… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Analyst Chris Cotner reports. This is part one of a two-part series on INPUT’s 10-year state budget projections. The news for state and local government simply has not been good this year. Record government employee layoffs are reported across the country. Wisconsin rioted. Minnesota is currently not functioning as a government. California hadRead… Read more »
Military cyber defenders face a tough challenge. Many of them have been trained in warfighting specialties like aviation, infantry, amphibious operations, submarine warfare etc, then one day they wake up with orders to a unit with operational cyber defense responsibilities. I’ve seen great champions from these disciplines, including F-14 pilots and RIOs, make fantastic contributionsRead… Read more »
A few months ago, Steve Radick and I gave mutually-exclusive lectures about social media to two different audiences and posted our dueling presentations to slide share. Yesterday, Steve posted an article that reiterated one of his points from a few months ago: “Social Media” is not a career option. I argued otherwise. This time theRead… Read more »
From Rohit Bhargava on Amex Open: Several weeks ago on a trip back to the US from South Africa, I deliberately picked up a magazine about a topic I knew very little about. It is one of the common tricks I use to learn about different industries-and in this case, the magazine I ended upRead… Read more »