As corporate and government leaders we depend on data and historical trends to make sense of today’s economy. We look at quarterly performance, study charts of changing sales numbers, analyze trends in housing prices, and examine the number of new jobs created last month. Unfortunately, much of the data has been disappointing, or worse, veryRead… Read more »
7 Lessons from the GSA Scandal, Finding the Right Career and Vets Rebuilding Communities by GovLoop Insights On the program today for Wednesday April 11th, 2012 Why that GSA conference matters to all of government. You’ll get seven lessons learned with Tom Fox from the Partnership for Public Service. Finding out WHAT you want toRead… Read more »
The U.S. military is increasingly being called on to build communities — in Iran and Afghanistan. Veterans are now doing that here at home — The 6th Branch— a group formed by a group of veterans and they are using their skills they learned in the military to rebuild inner-city neighborhoods. The 6th Branch isRead… Read more »
The GSA conference scandal is bad for GSA and bad for government in general. Lavish spending in a time of extreme budget cuts doesn’t help anyone. But there are some lessons to be learned. Tom Fox is the Vice President for Leadership and Innovation at PPS. He’s compiled his list of the seven things allRead… Read more »
I am learning American Sign Language (ASL) right now. My ASL II course final was last night. It was difficult, but I think I did OK. You may not know this, but ASL is it’s own language. With learning any new language, there are standard things like sentence structure unique to the language, vocabulary, etc.Read… Read more »
As one of the true leaders in our nation’s defense or as I like to call it, the “Apple” of our Nation’s defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is an organization that has shown the ability to be a starting and finishing point in terms of career progression with the federal government. DISA has anRead… Read more »
Would “virtual agencies” be an effective alternative to traditional structural reorganization initiatives? If so, what needs done to make them happen? When Vice President Gore’s reinventing government team was being formed in the early 1990s, he encouraged it to not focus on reorganizing agencies and programs, but rather to fix what’s inside the agencies. HeRead… Read more »
Leading a team is a difficult sometimes harrowing task. So you can only imagine how difficult managing a country can be. That’s the subject of Michael Eric Siegel’s new book, “The President as Leader.” The book highlights the leadership style of five different presidencies to find what works and what doesn’t. Michael told Chris DorobekRead… Read more »
This afternoon I attended a luncheon at the Scottish Rite Temple in DuPont Circle. This particular order of the Freemasons has a strong connection to The George Washington University, where I attend school and provides many fellowships for various graduate and undergraduate programs. I was fortunate enough to receive such a fellowship. This was partiallyRead… Read more »
Join us for next month’s NCDD “Confab Call” on Thursday, May 10th from 2:00 to 3:30 EST (register here). This month’s featured NCDDers are Tree Bresson and Sue Woerhlin, who will be talking with us about the innovative Group Works card deck and the collaboratively-developed pattern language it conveys — and of course sharing aRead… Read more »