Yearly Archives: 2012

Leadership

American Management Association Offers Complimentary Breakfast Event on Critical Thinking November 1st

ARLINGTON, VA – October 16, 2012 – The American Management Association (AMA) Enterprise Government Solutions, the global leader of talent transformation dedicated to providing workplace learning for government organizations, has announced that Dr. Haywood Spangler will be speaking at their November 1 complimentary government briefing, which will focus on enhancing government leaders’ critical thinking skills.Read… Read more »

Leadership, Miscellaneous

Government and Performance Measures

Part of my current employment is to understand and appreciate the impact MAP 21 may have on transportation operations and especially how transportation operations relates to congestion (rather than capacity or toll). Pretty specific there. What’s not so specific is MAP 21. As a result, there is now a nationwide dialogue occurring about what theseRead… Read more »

Acquisition

Costs for acquisition

I have witnessed some abuses of what I call the misuse of government spending and when I mention it the reply is that is the way they do it. The supply area needs to make money to pay their employees. The supply are get paid by the Gov. and they are a separate entity andRead… Read more »

Leadership

Leadership Lessons From Buffalo’s Poorly Performing Schools

By almost every measure the performance of Buffalo Public Schools are a failure. A recent report regarding the operation of Buffalo schools highlights management issues that have had a negative impact on the entire school system. The same issues identified in the Buffalo Public Schools exist in how City government in general is operated inRead… Read more »

Communications

Interdisciplinary

A colleague recently asked my opinion about a website he had built for his office. He was a writer and organizer by trade, and had been asked to build this site using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to facilitate online interaction in the office. But it wasn’t having the intended result — no one wanted to useRead… Read more »

Leadership

Open letter to Mr Stephen Sedgwick AO, Australian Public Service Commissioner

Dear Commissioner The purpose of this open letter is to articulate a number of issues relating to the apparent thinking of the Australian Public Service Commission and, indeed, the way the Commission goes about its work. In particular, it is a matter of concern that the Commission’s stance perpetuates a repressive corporate management culture. Self-limitingRead… Read more »

Communications

E-Verify Makes its Debate Debut — Plus DorobekINSIDER’s 7 Stories

On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Did you tune-in to last night’s debates? Record numbers of you took to twitter. But career feds were still left in the dark for specifics on what a second-term Obama administration or a Romney-Ryan ticket would actually look like. So how do the career folks prep? Click here for the fullRead… Read more »

Uncategorized

ASPA’s Section on Emergency Management Board Openings

If you are an active member of ASPA’s SECM and are interested in serving on the board, there are 3 positions open for election. If so, please let either John Kiefer or Tonya Elise Neaves ([email protected]) know as soon as possible. The new officers will assume their roles at ASPA’s national meeting in New OrleansRead… Read more »