Stop When You’ve Done Enough
Do you stop when you’ve done enough? What helps you be a satisficer instead of a maximizer?
Making Financial Data Accessible
All government leaders should think about how they can create more useful and usable CAFRs and other financial reports, with an eye toward digitization.
4 Steps to Recapturing Creative Flow
These are my go-to habits when I need to get back on track, and they might work for you, too.
The Power of Practice: A Toastmaster’s Public Speaking Journey
What tactics have you incorporated to improve your public speaking or presentation skills? Here are a few I learned.
Performance Metrics: Lessons for Public Leaders
Four tips for public leaders when developing performance metrics.
Become an Admin Advocate: Keep These 4 Tips in Mind
It is very common and very human to not understand people who are not like us or in the same position as we are. We have the ability, however, to change how we see other people and how we treat them. Start with these four tips and become an admin advocate.
Strategic Planning: How to Make Better Decisions
Not all decision-making methods are equal, and some work better than others, depending on the type of decision you need to make. Here are four methods of decision making.
Assemble the Right Team of IT Experts Focused on Cybersecurity
Database administrators, cloud computing engineers and cybersecurity experts are among the roles agencies need to fill with skilled professionals who can help defend against internal and external threats.
Discovering Your Strengths
If you are aware of your own strengths, you will begin to value your contributions. Even better, if you are aware of those around you, you can help others grow and contribute more meaningfully.
When Your Values Conflict With Work
It is easy to lose meaning in your work when your goals conflict with personal values. This happened to me when I worked in Baghdad during the U.S. occupation. Here’s how I found meaning in my work despite this conflict.