A new governmentwide survey finds general satisfaction among rank and file federal workers and for the first time gives the government hard numbers on the number of feds who telework. The 2010 Federal Viewpoint Survey, administered by the Office of Personnel Management (the government’s HR office), compiled answers from more than 263,000 Executive branch workers,Read… Read more »
When I was a PMF in 1998, I attended a week-long training in Shepardsville, W.V. along with a number of other PMFs. At that same facility, there was a group of mid-career federal employees who were also receiving training. Neither group interacted with each other except for a couple of incidents where the mid-career groupRead… Read more »
Open Dialogue on Aligning Training with Strategic Agency Results Warren Master and Russ Linden Warren: In my recent review of Russ Linden’s new book – Leading Across Boundaries: Creating Collaborative Agencies in a Networked World (http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470396776.html) – I encourage public management practitioners to avail themselves of the many case illustrations and user-friendly tools the authorRead… Read more »
Is it really THAT easy to make lemonade? It’s a rainy Saturday here in Alexandria, VA. There are three very professional men from Well Home working in my house right now to make it more green and energy efficient. Well Homehttp://www.wellhome.com has been wonderful. I don’t want to digress however I do want to giveRead… Read more »
From Philosophy Now Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?… These musings are intended to frame a set of questions: What is the likely impact of ubiquitous surveillance on our moral personalities? How might the advent of the surveillance society affect a person’s moral education and development? How does it alter the opportunities for moral growth?Read… Read more »
Getting the opportunity to participate in the Next Generation in Government Summit this past Tuesday was truly a honor. I am sure I speak for everyone who attended the event in thanking GovLoop and YGL for putting together something so fun and valuable! Working at the Partnership for Public Service and conducting interviews for myRead… Read more »
Hello all, First off, let me say how great the NGG Summit was – excellent networking opportunity! Now to the matter at hand – I would greatly appreciate feedback as to hot topics that would be appropriate for an upcoming senior leadership conference I am putting together. Brief background – the group is from anRead… Read more »
These are 9 things I came up with as I was “downloading” from the event the morning after. Please add your own in the comments below! 9. Myth: You can do it all and get A’s on everything (Frank DiGiammarino, its a realization I’ve come to before, but its always good to be reminded ofRead… Read more »
WOW! What a fun packed two day event!! It didn’t even FEEL like work 😉 First off, thank you Steve and the rest of govloop for my attendance to the summit!!! It was everything and more that I was looking for; I’m so grateful to have been apart of it! Second, I met some wayRead… Read more »
I posted pointers to some of these already. Now you can get all five of the O’Reilly Radar interviews with people in government and health care: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/topic/Health The conference is in mid-July, and we will be videotaping all the talks. I’ll report here when I find out where they’ll be posted.