Top-down leadership styles usually involve the leader being the focal point with subordinates taking direction and following orders. Bottom-up leadership styles usually involve the subordinates driving the action and the leader facilitating the action.
Knowing when to elevate and level up in your career is one that will require you to “get out of your own way” and explore, just like the way we do to move our agency’s mission forward.
How a chatbot disrupted the entire digital customer service experience for the Montana Motor Vehicle Division and the rogue project that made it possible.
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More than just the sum of its parts, STEM curriculum advocates an interdisciplinary approach to learning featured subjects. It’s an attempt to break down independent subject silos and inspire students with real-word applications for the problem-solving skills they have acquired through their coursework.
#1: Assumption of authority is a myth; real leadership is earned.
Using open source software is not as scary as you think. You may have heard rumors that it is insecure or hard to maintain. When managed correctly, the rumors are far from the truth.
Real facts are at our fingertips, but so are internet hoaxes. It really is our job to ensure that the details we share with others and use to make our decisions are as accurate as possible.
Creative problem solving (CPS) is a method for creatively approaching a challenge to develop ideas and potential solutions to problems.
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.