Poor Mitt Romney. They certainly took him out to the backyard and beat the bejesus out of him after his “I like to fire people” gaffe last week. But come on, now – I doubt that he meant it, at least not in the way that it was subsequently twisted and exploited by everyone fromRead… Read more »
What’s the hardest part of landing a new role to advance your career? I asked this question in a poll recently on the Career in Project Management LinkedIn Group. The top answer was that finding organizations and jobs seems to be the toughest challenge, at least from the people who responded to the poll IRead… Read more »
As a leader we are expected to be decisive and to advance toward the envisioned goals. So why do we find ourselves making excuses to postpone a meeting or delay an action? We sometimes rationalize deferring a task by convincing ourselves it would be better done later – based on perceived factors not directly relatedRead… Read more »
As a person interested in local government I recently read three years worth of the Town of Tonawanda, NY board minutes (population 78,000). I was shocked to learn how rare it is for a board member to vote “No” on an item. From 2008-2010 the Tonawanda Town Board voted on 3,179 items and during thisRead… Read more »
Greetings GovLoopers (GovLoopies?): In an effort to get the conversations flowing about leadership strategies that work, at work, from time to time we’ll post a ‘hypothetical’ leadership challenge here on this discussion board. Our goal is to ask what would you do as Government Leaders in a given situation. As with all things leadership, thisRead… Read more »
Social Connect via: Disclaimer: The story told here is purely fictional and used to illustrate my opinion, it is not a relation of personal experience but rather an observation I have heard from other public servants. What do I mean when I ask, “how do public servants get in the system”? I’m sure we areRead… Read more »
Management Practices Improvement Diagnostic From: Michael VanBruaene www.advancingyourorganization.com We have developed a diagnostic tool that is an approach for assessing and improving management practices in your organization. This improvement diagnostic tool that you can use, instead of hiring a consultant, provides a comprehensive approach for identifying the strengths and weaknesses of management practices; and thenRead… Read more »
Over the past 18-20 months, Deltek has taken innovative steps to transform its core business by acquiring three leading providers of information, teaming and software solutions designed to help companies compete more effectively for federal, state and local government business. By successfully merging INPUT, FedSources, and GovWin under one unified brand, the company is aRead… Read more »
The most fundamental step in learning and applying the leadership craft is learning to manage yourself. As promised in An Overview of the Leadership Pipeline, I am facilitating a closer look at the journey through the leadership pipeline from Managing Self through Managing the entire Enterprise. The discussion is based loosely on the book: TheRead… Read more »
Several weeks ago, as part of an ACT-IAC Acquisition Management Shared Interest Group (SIG) meeting, I volunteered to help figure out how our SIG could address a suggestion that was made by one of our government advisory team. The suggestion was to take a look at what value a procurement organization brings to their enterpriseRead… Read more »