When Our Personal and Professional Commitments Collide
It is only a matter of time before our personal and professional commitments conflict with one another. Learn what you can do to navigate.
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Tangible Ways to Improve Your Work Environment
The path to improving your work environment includes strengthening pillars of workplace happiness. Addressing at least one of these will improve the work environment.
A Toolkit for Working in Public Service
The article tries to shine a different light on government workers — one that emphasizes their optimism, ingenuity and collaborative spirit. Here are five rules to adhere by to excel in public service.
Analytics in Motion Part 4: Impacting the Resident
The most important part of the analytics process within an urban environment is impacting the resident.
How to Create a Philosophy on Leadership
What’s your philosophy on leadership? In other words, identifying how you see yourself as a leader will help to identify what you stand for and clarify your actions and behaviors.
Moving Beyond Recycling in Government
Everyone recycles, or they should. In our government offices we recycle paper, soda cans and plastic bottles. But it is time to move beyond recycling.
Building Innovation Into Project Management
Innovation is alone is difficult. Innovation in project management is even more difficult. Here’s how to systematically foster innovation in your projects.
Introducing the Minimum Political Product (MPP)
You may have heard of the term MVP or Minimum Viable Product. This article is about a related concept: the Minimum Political Product, or MPP.
Senior Executive Pathways: Part I
Find out best practices and tips for the Senior Executive pathway into government from Suzanne Logan, Director of OPM’s Federal Executive Institute.
Communication Infrastructure: Smart Open Space Part 2
Smart open space is a vision similar to that of smart cities. Smart open space is designed to integrate information, communication technology and IoT.