Radical Ambition

Are you involved in projects that are daring in their visioning? If so, how do you preserve your vision as it goes through the approval process?

Digital Literacy: A Foundation for Successful Smarter Cities

To navigate and succeed in this digital environment will require consciously acquiring new skills, and updating existing ones. Digital Literacy is the new mantra and needed call to action for all of us.

Making the Grade: Improving Risk Management on the FITARA Scorecard 8.0

Agencies should take these three key next steps to Improve their FITARA 8.0 scorecards.

Maximizing the Value of Research and Development – A Simple Case Study

One agency took a new approach to create near and long term value in their research and development efforts. Can this approach help you transform how you conduct R&D?

FDA vs. USDA: What’s the Difference?

Everything you eat is regulated by a government agency. The question is, which one?

Government Job Application Essays Made Easy

Most people would rather eat ground glass than write essays for job applications. Nevertheless, if you apply for Senior Executive Service (SES) jobs, training programs, fellowships or other selective career opportunities, you will probably have to answer odious essay questions.

Jargon Is a Barrier: Why It’s Important to Keep It Simple

Jargon has an appropriate audience and is better used as a quick form of communication with the right people than as a display of expertise around the wrong people.

Deciding Who Decides, and Doors: The Decision-Maker Conundrum

The general rule of great delegators is to push decision-making authority to the lowest level possible within an organization. Reason being, that is where the best information lives to inform that decision. However, real life is not so simple.