Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Government Innovation
Internal barriers to innovation can arise, from a shortage of designated staff to provide oversight and monitoring of implementation, and also if a Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle isn’t utilized.
Delivering Results Through Digital Website Design
Whether you are creating the website with your own staff, or using an outside firm to do the work, they should be using best of breed tools and techniques that are not only intuitive but also allow changes as technology and users dictate.
Are You Too Busy To Learn How To Overcome Busyness?
Busyness can be a train that keeps barreling down the tracks, if you let it. But, implementing some changes in perspective can give your life a healthy balance, and keep your “engine” running efficiently.
The Importance of Communicating Your Value to Leaders
If your work helps an executive move closer to realizing their vision, they will assign more value to you, and your work, and will request more assistance from you. This is also true if your work helps alleviate their pain.
So You Just Became a Supervisor, Now What?
In belated honor of National Boss’s Day (which came earlier this month) here are some tips for first-time supervisors.
Part 2: The Blind Bankrobber – A Story About Cybersecurity
In part 1 of this story, we used a bank robbery as a metaphor for a cyberattack. At the end of Part 1, the robbers had made it to the vault. In part 2 we will consider how they break in and how they get the goods back out. Step 4: Breaking into the VaultRead… Read more »
Leadership Lessons from The Boss
As a an experienced leader, I’d like to share a few of my Springsteen favorite lyrics and how they inform my leadership philosophy.
To Boost Your Performance Do Less, Then Obsess
It’s not always clear how to improve performance. The value of the work we do can sometimes be a little mysterious.
5 Ineffective Leadership Signs and How to Deal With Them
You’ve all had that boss who prevented you from achieving the mission due to his or her ineffective leadership habits. Here are five ineffective leadership signs and how to deal with them.
What’s the Difference Between Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?
The terms ‘automation, ‘artificial intelligence,’ and ‘machine learning’ are hot topics in a lot of government technology conversations. These terms are often used interchangeably and sometimes incorrectly, which can be confusing. Let’s take a look at what this tech jargon means.