Work is making and keeping promises. Delegators want to factor complexity into their failure. No points off. Work requires learning and developing improved processes. No points off for ignorance. Work requires maintaining successful relationships in the environment. Losing is losing. Work is a tough game. No one is ever error-free. Which gives everyone a chanceRead… Read more »
I still remember the feeling I had when my parents dropped me off at college for the first time. We said our goodbyes outside my dorm and then they were off. I was alone. It was a little scary, I’ll admit. As I walked back into my dorm, it hit me. This was my time.Read… Read more »
Jon Gann (left), director of the DC Shorts Film Festival congratulates Fed Perry (right) on winning the DC Shorts Screenplay Competition. Photo courtesy of DC Shorts. Think screenwriting is a young person’s game? Fred Perry proved otherwise as he won the 2013 DC Shorts Screenplay Competition. The DC Shorts Screenplay Competition is a very differentRead… Read more »
After moving to a new state, I recently visited the DMV to apply for my new license. I arrived at the DMV when it opened at 8AM on a Saturday. There was already a line out the door, and 2.5 hours later, I was all set and ready to head home to enjoy the restRead… Read more »
How do you get your message through the wild west that is currently digital communication? Think about it, TV and Radio news bulletins have been replaced by text-messaging, Twitter, blogs, Facebook and Google+ updates. There are millions if not billions of tweets and facebook posts alone, so it is almost impossible to break through theRead… Read more »
We spend a lot of time talking about why the mobile workplace is important, how to create a mobile workplace, what technology to use, and how to overcome manager resistance. All of these topics are important, but I thought it might be worthwhile to consider how one person makes it work on a regular basis.Read… Read more »
As more government agencies move to self-service and eliminate paper based transactions, agencies must place an emphasis of preventing waste, fraud and abuse. These efforts come when agencies are required to deliver increased services, at lower costs. In a time when the economy is slowly climbing out of a recession, increased pressures have been placedRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: It has been 17 years since the federal government last faced a partial shutdown. Every shutdown is different. The politics that cause them are different. But there are lessons to be learned from past shutdowns. We get insights from three former OPM directors. Your Shutdown Reader: GovLoop: When Will the GovRead… Read more »
In a FCW recent article, Nolan Jones, Director of eGovernment Innovation, NIC, discusses why the federal government must plan now for going mobile and states, “mobile implementation is unquestionably difficult. Yet, it also is essential.” Of course there are many reasons the federal government hasn’t fully jumped on the mobile train, despite the benefits ofRead… Read more »
According to a Fierce Government IT article, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and many other Commerce Department bureaus will have very limited exemptions from furloughs. The only two agencies that will have significant exemptions include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at 45 percent and the Bureau of Industry and Security at 40Read… Read more »