At 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2003, a Cuban gunboat quietly docked at the Hyatt Marina in Key West, Florida.It had entered U.S. waters, the harbor and the marina next to the U.S. Coast Guard station undetected by the Coast Guard or the U.S. Navy… From the first of three excerpts from “Collaborate or Perish!”,Read… Read more »
You would have to be “Rip Van Winkle” to not realize that the Federal Budget deficit is at the top of the list of issues facing our nation. Certainly, we see and hear about it on almost a daily basis in the media. However, we are also seeing the effect in our work places. AgenciesRead… Read more »
Thanks to author, Bruce Rosenstein, for this thoughtful and practical guest post on how to start your year off right by simply making a list. Read on… As we begin 2012, many of us will be looking for new ways to organize and improve our life. One reason that taking advantage of a new beginningRead… Read more »
Does your New Year’s resolution involve inspiring young people to be science and technology leaders, engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, and fostering well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership? If so, is this a vision statement you can get behind? “To transform our culture by creatingRead… Read more »
As I was teaching our IDIQs and Task Orders course on Monday, we were reviewing the best practices for a quick and efficient proposal development process. One practice was conducting a proper kickoff meeting. After attending many proposal kickoffs (some of which included a proper breakfast and a long PowerPoint), and then watching a proposalRead… Read more »
Editor’s note: The tips Bryan Halfpap provides below really work. I stood up a working Hadoop Cluster in under 20 minutes, from cold iron to production ready, using just his guidance and a Rackspace account. bg I’ve been working with Apache Hadoop in my lab, spending much of that with CDH3 (the Cloudera Distribution includingRead… Read more »
Newly Emergent Collaborative Governance Practices. Online Collaboration is increasingly being used to address complex resource and ecosystem management issues, and for strategic planning and development. In the context of challenges to traditional government practices, we are seeing generation of a variety of new practices that are based on collaboration, deliberation, and dialogue. In a previousRead… Read more »
“It’s okay to talk to yourself. Just don’t tell yourself any lies.” Danny Evans, Carpenter Reality is complex. To understand and predict reality we build models, simplified versions of reality. Managers often confuse their model with reality. The model doesn’t care. When your model no longer works, build a new model. Since New Year’s, I’veRead… Read more »
In January of 2011 shortly after taking office as Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order creating the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission. The purpose of SAGE is to modernize and rightsize government to make it more efficient, effective and accountable through four activities: On December 15, 2011, the SAGE Commission met and approvedRead… Read more »
In our current business environment should we train, not train, or delay training? That is the question. All one has to do is listen to the news, look at a magazine or newspaper, or attend a meeting with management to confirm that the government is in a period of significant budgetary challenges. Although we mayRead… Read more »