Welcome to another blog. I am a retired Senior Executive (GSA) and the author of a recently published book, Confessions of a Government Man: How to Succeed in Any Bureaucracy. This post is another book excerpt, abbreviated and cleaned up for family entertainment. It deals with attorneys. It is not my intention to bash theRead… Read more »
I approached this book with trepidation. Financial books are not my purview, but the author Michael Lewis had written the massive best-seller “The Blind Side” so I trusted his ability to keep me engaged. His credentials to write a book on the financial industry were established with his first book “Liar’s Poker.” I opened theRead… Read more »
Niccolo Machiavelli is probably most well known for The Prince, but I wonder what advice he might have for organizations in the era of social media. Maybe it would look something like this … People and Tactics Make sure you have the right people running your social media efforts; Give those people robust rules ofRead… Read more »
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” Socrates complained about the younger generation.Read… Read more »
I hope you take a moment to check out what’s going on the month of October. Plenty of things that require your awareness as a member of this planet. I’ve gone ahead and made it easy for you, and have listed events which impact you, your environment, and the world we live in – nowRead… Read more »
Putting open data to work: Join Adriel Hampton and Steve Lunceford for a fast-paced discussion with Walter Luh and Gilbert Guerrero of Ansca Mobile discussing their new Pillbox app for iPhone and Android, and Andrew Wilson of SAMHSA on health mashups and the state of government social media. (Plus, check out our first show aboutRead… Read more »
Bully and Victim The Oct 1, 2010 PBS NewsHour includes a segment on ‘bullying’ by and against young adults via the Internet. In this PBS segment the victim of the harassment, also a young adult, escaped the horror by taking his own life. The aggressor enters a new and permanent stage in life dealing with,Read… Read more »
Image via Wikipedia One of the laws of social media that I regularly hear is “don’t feed the trolls“. There is, to be honest, many good reasons for this, including, but not limited to: They waste precious resources, often driving focus away from real issues, real goals. They can never be pleased. They are peopleRead… Read more »
Last week a client, a CXO in a large government contractor, said he was ready to move on. “I’m looking for something better, just so it doesn’t involve business development.” He has spent the last five years leading the introduction of new technologies to a thirty year old organization. Many of his projects are unique,Read… Read more »
In Egypt where increasingly women face undesirable attention from men , HarrasMap is a an independent community watch project, planned to launch in the coming few weeks, it will enable women to report harassment instantly by sending a text message to a centralised system, the reported incidents are used to build a detailed, public mapRead… Read more »