Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart starts off as a hilarious farce, an inventive look at the future gone wrong. All your paranoid fears about the Department of Homeland Security are well-represented as a bureaucratic error throws Lenny, the book’s narrator, into absurdist peril. But the novel is much deeper than that. It’sRead… Read more »
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Focusing your Cloud Strategy
Recently we discussed the idea of how central to your cloud computing strategy’s success is having focus. You can garner that focus by communicating with your IT team and your business stakeholders to determine if you have any, or what your cloud computing key value drivers are. 1. Do we need to dramatically reduce ITRead… Read more »
Rock Star Conditioning: 4 things you can do today to bring out your inner business Rock Star
The start of a New Year for most means time to wax nostalgically on the previous year and set out to embark on the New Year with all kinds of well-meant resolutions for the future. I, like many others, have set audacious goals for myself with every intention of following through and like many othersRead… Read more »
Possible Explosive Device Rendered Safe by Bomb Squad
Incident: Homemade Explosive Device Date and Time of Release: January 14, 2011 / 1:30 pm At about 10:00 am on Friday morning, 01/14/11, Arcadia Police Officers were called to Foothills Middle School, 171 E. Sycamore in Arcadia, regarding a suspicious person on the campus who tried to open up several classrooms. The reporting party sawRead… Read more »
Honourable Mention! The Mozilla Visualization Challenge Update
Really pleased to share that Diederik and I earned an honourable mention for our submission to the Mozilla Open Data Competition. For those who missed it – and who find opendata, open source and visualization interesting – you can read a description of and see images from our submission to the competition in this blogRead… Read more »
CEIL Blog Friday Wrap-Up
In case you missed any posts from earlier this week, we’ve collected them below in a handy list for you! Waste to Energy: A Large Anaerobic Digestor in Scotland New Face at the White House: Economist Nathaniel Keohane Environmental Policy and EO 13514: Green Government Podcast, Episode 14 Department of Agriculture’s BioPreferred Program Don’t forgetRead… Read more »
From Passionate Process to Poetic and Playful Puzzle – Part I: The Art of Reviving and Writing “The Reorg Rag” ™
As I open this essay, please forgive an immodest turn. Upon reading or hearing one of my edgy or catchy phrasings, for example, the title of my book, Practice Safe Stress, or a motivational mantra, such as, “Do know your limits and don’t limit your ‘No’s,” I often receive some verbal or nonverbal sign ofRead… Read more »
Daily Dose: Take 2 Weeks Off… With Out Pay
Most federal employees would agree that it’s already pretty cold when it comes to payroll with the pay freeze but federal govies might need to prepare for another winter storm: 2 week furloughs. Just posted today by Ed O’Keefe of the Washington Post a plan to enforce a 2 week unpaid vacation for feds hasRead… Read more »
Lazy Government Employees
Several years ago, about 6 months after I started working for a new employer, my supervisor called me in to his office to give me feedback on how I was doing. During our conversation, he told me, “I only hire people who are lazy.” Not wanting to be tagged with that moniker, I figured IRead… Read more »
SLG Business Brief: Partnerships, Re-orgs and more ERP
The week of January 10, 2011 saw some corporate actions including a partnership, a consolidation and reorganization, a public sector division pat-on-the back and a few contract wins in Louisiana and Ohio. Meanwhile, a deal in Maine adds some red to one company’s ledger and Ann Arbor, Michigan gets paid for helping a neighbor withRead… Read more »