OGTV believes: Empower Me-Empowers You. Over 600 young people ages 15-22, and an auditorium filled with parents, teachers, bankers, business men, women, public speakers, political leaders, and Hollywood stars, convened at Essex County College in Newark New Jersey on April 30th to learn about the importance of financial literacy, test scoring practices, higher education, andRead… Read more »
Same location, different hiring methods You would think that local government hiring processes might have similarities to one another when they are located in the same geographic region. As I conducted research for my book, Jobs That Matter: Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service, I found this definitely to not be the case.Read… Read more »
Article Summary: Everyone is a storyteller. You are a storyteller. You tell personal and professional stories every day. Whether you direct an international association, manage a government program, run a small business, or serve as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, consider every written, verbal, and social media communication as a business story. YouRead… Read more »
One of my last assignments of the semester is to write a paper on social media metrics. I was part of a research team that interviewed about a dozen social media directors in the private sector and is using the interviews to try and find lessons for the public sector. It was a really interestingRead… Read more »
This content was originally posted on Phase One Consulting Group’s Government Transformation Blog. Over the past few weeks I had the pleasure of serving as a global judge for the MIT Global Challenge which ended in an exciting awards ceremony Monday in Cambridge, Mass. The Challenge is designed to connect students” with the passion andRead… Read more »
Below is a link to an interview with Eric Schmidt that was recently posted by McKinsey. For those of you involved in hiring and managing people, particularly creative people, you may find Schmidt’s early comments on these topics interesting. For those of you in the IT business, you may find Schmidt’s thoughts on mobile computingRead… Read more »
Otherwise known as silos. The things which contain grain and other mysterious substances which I was told to stay away from as a child roaming the fields surrounding our village freely – silos and slurry pits, the enemies of the right to roam. Leaving slurry pits aside (though there temptation to weave them into thisRead… Read more »
Let me explain. I receive many questions from my Project Management Career Newsletter about degrees. Should I get an MBA or a Master’s degree in Project Management? I have a BS or BA in an unrelated discipline. Should I go back to school for an advanced business or PM degree? I just got laid off.Read… Read more »
Indiana will be changing the way teachers are evaluated and paid. Under a Senate bill signed on Friday, Indiana will now include teacher effectiveness benchmarks in its hiring, salary and promotions decisions. The bill is the first of Governor Mitch Daniels broad education reform agenda to pass both chambers and be signed into law. UnderRead… Read more »
I have cracked the problem of government IT. A few months ago, I argued that there is no such thing as the government. Now, in a further breakthrough, I have realised that there is no such thing as IT either. Putting those two thoughts together leads unavoidably to the conclusion that the problem of governmentRead… Read more »