An innovative fund for innovation; NASA’s opengov 2.0 plan; and the Sunshine Awards

An innovative fund for innovation; NASA’s opengov 2.0 plan; and the Sunshine Awards by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Thursday April 12, 2012: The challenge is to be innovative. What about an innovation fund? They’re actually trying this out in Michigan. We’ll talk to the person behind it about how it works… their goals…Read… Read more »

3 Free Ways to Hold a Virtual Mentor Session by Video Chat

Although open to all, this blog post is dedicated to participants in the GovLoop Mentors Program! More than 70% of the mentoring partnerships in the GovLoop Mentors Program do not work in the same city. Even those pairings that are co-located geographically are likely finding it tough to schedule a time to meet face-to-face, in-person.Read… Read more »

7 Lessons from the GSA Scandal, Finding the Right Career for You and Vets Coming Together to Rebuild Communities

7 Lessons from the GSA Scandal, Finding the Right Career and Vets Rebuilding Communities by GovLoop Insights On the program today for Wednesday April 11th, 2012 Why that GSA conference matters to all of government. You’ll get seven lessons learned with Tom Fox from the Partnership for Public Service. Finding out WHAT you want toRead… Read more »

Video — How Vets are using their military skills to rebuild inner-city neighborhoods

The U.S. military is increasingly being called on to build communities — in Iran and Afghanistan. Veterans are now doing that here at home — The 6th Branch— a group formed by a group of veterans and they are using their skills they learned in the military to rebuild inner-city neighborhoods. The 6th Branch isRead… Read more »

7 Big Takeaways from the GSA Scandal — how they can apply to you too

The GSA conference scandal is bad for GSA and bad for government in general. Lavish spending in a time of extreme budget cuts doesn’t help anyone. But there are some lessons to be learned. Tom Fox is the Vice President for Leadership and Innovation at PPS. He’s compiled his list of the seven things allRead… Read more »

What You can Learn from Presidential Leadership Styles…

Leading a team is a difficult sometimes harrowing task. So you can only imagine how difficult managing a country can be. That’s the subject of Michael Eric Siegel’s new book, “The President as Leader.” The book highlights the leadership style of five different presidencies to find what works and what doesn’t. Michael told Chris DorobekRead… Read more »

What is the STOCK Act? Why are SESers up in arms?

We are hearing a LOT of concern out there about the STOCK Act— the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act. This is the bill –– now law — designed to deal with lawmakers using an insider scoop from making money off of that information. Essentially, it makes insider trading by lawmakers illegal, which is aRead… Read more »