Risk Management AssessmentAre You Gambling With Your Contingency Plan? Answer these questions to find out! Comment and share your answers below. 1) Is your company delaying important continuity plan updates due to scarce resources? 2) Are you spending too much time and energy assessing risks and aren’t sure how to distill the data into aRead… Read more »
Key Words: Acquisition, Procurement, Purchasing, Contracts, Contracting, Supply, Supply-chain, Supply Chain Management, Materials Management, Construction, A/E/C, Public Works, A & E Design, Tendering,Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing and all of the former in 2.0 It’s not rocket science. If “a rose is a rose is a rose”, then acquisition is acquisition is acquisition, right? If you workRead… Read more »
Happy Wednesday! Following a recent study that found a serious lack of minorities on Capitol Hill, House Democratic and Republican leaders plan to tackle rank and file concerns with a series of moves. On Tuesday leaders established a diversity task force that will sponsor training courses, build a resume bank of potential job candidates andRead… Read more »
Top 5 – Reasons You Didn’t Get the promotion I’m writing a little series on Top 5s. I’ll write my top 5s on various topics and I encourage you to write yours. So you’ve been waiting a long time for a promotion…you applied, interviewed…and got denied. Here’s the standard 5 reasons you didn’t get theRead… Read more »
Cool post by folks over at FedTimes http://blogs.federaltimes.com/federal-times-blog/wp-content/themes/fedtimes/images/quote.jpg); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); background-position: 10px 10px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; “> As God is my witness, KSAs as an initial screening tool will fall. – Office of Personnel Management Director JohnRead… Read more »
UPDATE: An editable-by-everybody version of the Manifesto (now renamed Rules of Thumb) is posted on Google Docs. This lets you add ideas as they come to you and should give a sense of ownership. That means a better end product for the entire Acquisition/Contracting/Procurement community. Leading up to BuyCamp, I’ll post online info about talksRead… Read more »
Despite the presence of outstanding leaders throughout our federal government, the bad ones have a disproportionate impact on government performance. Michael Scott may be television’s version of a bad boss on NBC’s The Office, but from what I hear, there are lots of leaders with similar failings roaming agency hallways. It may be funny toRead… Read more »
The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership is pleased to announce that the evaluation and selection process for The 2010 Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Awards for Distinguished DC Government Employees is successfully concluded. An independent selection panel, composed of a group of individuals who have extensive experience in public service andRead… Read more »
This article was originally posted on the Tri Tuns, LLC blog at https://trituns.wordpress.com/ Please check out this blog or the Tri Tuns website for more articles and other great resources. OBSERVATION “We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.” We all know that leadership commitment to a new project, ITRead… Read more »
Excerpts from a post originally published at the eGov AU blog. In the last 24 hours, over 30 US Federal agencies have released their Open Government plans in a strategic outpouring that demonstrates some of the best whole-of-government Gove 2.0 leadership in the world. GovLoop has published a complete list of these Open Government plansRead… Read more »