Keep Calm and Lead On: 5 Fundamentals for Effective Leaders
As a leader, you must be able to take full responsibility for any failures or mishaps. Is that something you can accept? Use this as a reminder or a quick guide to be an effective leader.
Praise Effort, Not Talent
Praise effort and resilience and avoid singling out intelligence, smartness or talent.
FirstNet for IT Application Developers
The need for a dedicated public safety network is getting bigger with the increased use of wireless devices.
House Oversight Committee Shows Us What’s Ahead for DATA Act
On April 13, key Congressional oversight leaders gathered to check on the health of the DATA Act. Their prognosis? Good, but not out of the woods yet. The joint oversight hearing brought officials from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Treasury Department, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), andRead… Read more »
Why You Should Join a Nonprofit Board
The silo effect is something we have all probably felt within our organizations, but we can also feel it within the communities we work in. Joining a nonprofit board is a strategic and beneficial way to bridge that gap and improve connectivity.
Assemble the Government Avengers: A Comic Book Lesson in Collaboration
In the world of government, we have many common threats to face. Though it may be possible to withstand them on our own, we make ourselves much mightier when we band together and tackle them as a team.
A Climate Ripe for Mobile Health
How government is responding to the mobile health expansion.
Navigating Your Federal Retirement: Your Successful Passage Into Financial Freedom
One thing has become abundantly clear to me in over six years of helping federal employees look forward to retirement: you cannot plan for retirement successfully if you don’t know and understand all of your options.
What’s Your Public Service Story?
What’s your public service story? What unique experiences and insight can you share with someone new to government or your peers? A fulfilling way to share your story is at this year’s Next Generation of Government Training Summit, taking place August 1-2 in Washington, D.C. The NextGen speaker contest was created to help you findRead… Read more »
The Modern Government CIO
How can the vendor community help government CIOs embrace and act on the innovations that will lead to more successful outcomes? First, we have to help them execute on the key points that will create success, regardless of the service delivery model they choose