We generally have a disconnect between the person, business, or agency that we want to be and the reality of who or what we are today. This disconnect is a great thing, an opportunity for growth an opportunity for improvement. However, when not understood, it is also a major pain point, something that leads yourRead… Read more »
Last week we competed in the Amateur Rum Internationals in Nassau. Went diving with a couple from England. Chris had been a dairy farmer for over twenty years, then ten years ago he looked at the economics of dairy farming in England and decided there weren’t any. Took his buildings and converted them into “workshops.”Read… Read more »
I’ve recently been lucky enough to become part of a group of fellow Canadians, who, inspired by the works of giants like Steve Ressler, Chris Rasmussen, Nick Charney and David Eaves decided that we wanted a space of our own to play in. Canadians tend to get lots in the larger Govloop.com space, which isRead… Read more »
Greetings all, Sadly I wasn’t able to make the Govloop.ca Victoria meet up. Nina forwarded me the to-do list, and, as was declared by the group, I’m willing to take the lead in much of this. Steve has named me interim Canadian Editor of Govloop.com, which basically means I have a few extra passwords. UponRead… Read more »
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is blocking Senate passage of a bill that would compensate the roughly 2,000 Transportation Department workers who were furloughed during an impasse over federal funding for highway and transportation projects. Coburn wants to pay the workers back with $1 million from the congressional budget, rather than tapping the federal coffers. ThatRead… Read more »
Office of Personnel Director John Berry blasted a Friday Washington Times editorial critical of the federal pay system and bonus system. The newspaper criticized the 2.4 percent annual pay raise workers earned earlier this year and $285 million in incentive payments to keep employees from retiring or transferring to other agencies. “The left shrieks aboutRead… Read more »
Throughout the week, Federal News Radio has been covering the debate over federal employee pay. From an analysis in USA Today on Monday, to a rebuttal from the Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday, there is a lot of anger on both sides of the issue. This morning, The Washington Times printed an editorial, The FederalRead… Read more »
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This is a repost from my blog recoveringfed.com If you recall my post early on regarding the lessons I learned from 25 years as a CIA manager, I was able to recall 16. (And I also promised to flesh out most of them in individual posts–still planning on it.) But I ran across this usefulRead… Read more »
This is a repost from my blog recoveringfed.com. In my posting on Lessons from a CIA manager, Lesson 2 was: “Remember, your decisions are going to have much less staying power than you’re expecting them to have. Decisions are not committed relationships; they are more like one-night stands.” As perhaps this analogy is not eminentlyRead… Read more »