On a recent trip to the West Coast, I finished an interesting read entitled “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” by Cal Newport. Cal is an interesting character – a recent MIT PhD graduate, he is an assistant professor at Georgetown University in Computer Science. On the side for years, he’s been a prolific bloggerRead… Read more »
Anyone go to a graduation this weekend? If you didn’t know, it’s graduation season. Where I live near a college campus, the students are packing up and moving on to summer jobs. My favorite part of graduation – commencement speeches. When else do we have a ton of successful people, share their tips on success.Read… Read more »
In a recent GovLoop survey, we asked our members – “What’s your biggest challenge?” The #1 answer was the proverbial – “Do More with Less” I’ve spent the last month working on a presentation entitled “Do More With Less” that I’ve now given to three different audiences where I’ve gotten some great feedback and questionsRead… Read more »
Last week, I had the honor of speaking about “Social Media and Public Health” at the Michigan Homeland Security Training Conference. It was a great event with ~3,000 state and local government public health and emergency response leaders (plus Grand Rapids, MI is an awesome town). I thought I’d share my slides below as wellRead… Read more »
At GovLoop, we recently released a report on “Digital Government Strategy”. One aspect of Digital Government, we touched briefly on but I wanted to dive in deeper in this post is the question “What’s a Digital City?” and “How Do I Become One?” This I decided to write a list – 30 Steps to BecomeRead… Read more »
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Mark Zuckerberg In the public sector, everything is changing quickly – budgets are being tightened, baby boomers are starting to retire, technology needs from the public increase everyRead… Read more »
Well, I’m not a performance athlete. And I’m no Mark McGwire or Lance Armstrong. But we all have our own “work performance drugs” – the legal kind that is. Here’s my top 5 that keep me productive at work: 1. Coffee – This is the #1 stimulant in the world. And the reason the workRead… Read more »
Have you ever heard of Bill Swanson’s “33 Unwritten Rules of Management”? In 2000, Bill Swanson, CEO of Raytheon, unleashed his 33 Unwritten Rules of Management. And it caught on – there was something that touched the nerve of many. The simplicity of the rules, the lack of jargon involved. Raytheon ended up distributing overRead… Read more »
Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion around bringing entrepreneurship to government. Code for America has a great fellowship program that brings people from the tech world to work for 1 year with cities. The White House Presidential Innovation Fellows program serves a similar focus – matching small teams of outside entrepreneurs to solve governmentRead… Read more »
Recently, I’ve talked to a number of government employees whose agencies are in full cost cutting modes as related to sequestration. All of them said they are looking for ways to cut costs. So I thought I’d write a list – so here you go: 22 Ways to Cut Costs in Time of Sequester: 1)Read… Read more »