I enjoyed listening to my parents reading fairy tales to me when I was young. The Fairy Tale books were stacked neatly next to Dr. Suess in my bookcase waiting for me to pick which book one my parents would read to me at bed time. What network executive “Green Lighted” Grimm. Now when IRead… Read more »
Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and one of the world’s leading experts in human potential, has lectured on his research in 48 countries. After more than a decade at Harvard University, Achor founded Good Think Inc. to share this research with organizations worldwide. This interview was conducted by Tom Fox, author of theRead… Read more »
Happy Friday everyone! They always say, three’s a crowd, but does it take two to tango? I think it’s safe to say, yes. Check back for next week’s GEICO Friday Fun Video! ———————————– GEICO was created in 1936 to provide auto insurance to federal government employees and their families. 75 years later, GEICO is oneRead… Read more »
Just back from our biggest ever users’ conference and the question on many government end users’ minds is “What next?” Not surprising in the current “New Normal” climate of risk reduction, cost-cutting and staff squeezes. Also, not surprising that when you invest in an enterprise technology, you continue to assess where and how to deployRead… Read more »
The new partnership between NJ TRANSIT and Google Wallet has the potential to change the way people travel and shop, according to a post in Tnooz. Original post
Last week I tried to connect the idea of disruptive innovation to Lewis Hyde’s anthropological analysis of the mythological trickster. The comparison hinged on a couple ideas, namely that both are focused on the breaking of traditional trade-offs, and that breaking those trade-offs results in a re-ordering of the status quo, a re-ordering that revealsRead… Read more »
Day 61 Balancing Budget Line Items I finally completed the analysis of my budget and identified two line items that needed to have funds amended to agree with the actual expenditures. Fortunately there were amounts in related funds that I could amend to a lower amount so the overall change to my division’s budget isRead… Read more »
Louisiana has lost an $80 million rural broadband grant for failing to keep their broadband expansion project on track. The Commerce Department rescinded the grant stating that the project administrators were repeatedly unresponsive to requests for information and updates on where the project stood. Senator Mary Landrieu has said that her state missed an opportunity,Read… Read more »
“Why is that, do you think,” I ask my students, “we say blended instead of hybrid here? Usually the first thing a teacher, an instructor, a professor or a trainer does is write the class a welcome letter. I have just had my second class with two classes in different locations. One class is urbanRead… Read more »
In Appendix G, the PMBOK Guide discusses Interpersonal Skills for the project manager. We are currently reviewing these one by one in our weekly PMP exam tip and we have reached the last one in the series: Negotiation. The nature of the role of a project manager makes it essential for them to have goodRead… Read more »