What is the secret sauce for creating an innovation culture in your agency? Successful inventions often spring from the minds of individual inventors – we often think of Thomas Edison at the classic inventor. But successful innovation is a team sport, according to a new Harvard Business Review article by a team of researchers –Read… Read more »
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Transforming Talent Management: The Impact of Social and Digital Tech
Transforming talent management requires digitization and leveraging social and digital technologies to promote and enhance communication, collaboration, and engagement. This post presents some of the ways in which social and digital technologies are transforming talent management throughout the employee life cycle. All of the practices are currently possible based on available technology; however, none ofRead… Read more »
7 Common Leadership Mistakes
It’s small, but mighty. If ignored, it gets worse. It can cause us to limp, stumble, and ultimately fail. What is it? It’s our “Achilles’ heel.” We have weaknesses. Some weaknesses, such as dishonesty, aggressiveness, or blatant disrespectfulness, are glaring. Others, though not as obvious, can be just as debilitating to a leader and theirRead… Read more »
To Infinity and Beyond – Or At Least to Savings
Space: the final frontier. When you look into the night sky, up at the stars, you can’t help but dream of exploration. A trip to the moon. A map of the constellations. A ride on a solar flare. But in 2011, NASA changed the space game: they terminated the space shuttle program. But that didn’tRead… Read more »
Citizen Sensors, CIOs, Cost of Compliance: CBG Round-up, 06.06.2014
Gadi Ben-Yehuda People as peripherals. Government Technology reports on “The Role of Citizens in Smart Cities” Author Tod Newcombe offers that citizens will become part of the Smart City’s sensor network, which seems right to me, as I wrote about this in 2012:“Perhaps one of the most sophisticated sensors that can be connected to theRead… Read more »
It’s a bird, it’s a plane – it’s Superman!…nope, even better: it’s NASA
It’s a bird, it’s a plane – it’s Superman!…nope, even better: it’s NASA. NASA has eyes in the skies, helping to monitor and protect us. Each day, NASA satellites collect and transmit valuable data about environmental conditions on earth, including climate change and the impact of natural disasters. But this information is useless without theRead… Read more »
Where’s the Love? The #1 Reason Managers Aren’t Providing You Enough Feedback
How many of you are supervisors who wish you were giving more feedback and recognition to your staffs? How many of you are employees who wish you were getting more feedback and recognition from your boss? Whatever side of the question you fall on, manager and employee engagement through feedback and recognition is an essentialRead… Read more »
CIOs Talking Cybersecurity – Plus the 7 Gov Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: We don’t have to tell you about the challenges facing public sector IT – Healthcare.gov was just one of the more visible procurement hurdles. The Public Spend Forum has published a study, “Billions in the Balance: Removing Barriers to Competition and Driving Innovation in Public Sector IT Markets,” – and theRead… Read more »
Work Got You Down? 6 Ways to Improve Morale During Tough Times
How can you get your employees to give you the thumbs up? Improving morale is one place to start. “Budget cuts, restrictions, reduced resources, and shutdowns” could be the mantra of our times. Many public sector workers got into their field out of a love for service, but constant roadblocks can wear down even theRead… Read more »
Here’s Looking at You, Kid – You’re a Government Rock Star
In high school, I was a cheerleader. Pom poms and football games were my Friday night. That might not sound like a good time for many, but for me, it was the ultimate. Why? Because I honestly believe that people perform better when their good work is recognized – and I loved rooting for othersRead… Read more »