Quick! Read the series of letters and numbers shown below. Don’t waste any time. Can you read them? (The images are on the left side of the page below the first image) Hopefully you found that to be pretty easy. (And, if I were better with HTML I would have figured out how to putRead… Read more »
“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.” – From Star Trek, First Contact As a teleworking manager looking in on a traditional office environment, the dangers of the office often seem frighteningly similarRead… Read more »
Hola GovLoop, Last weekend I pitched and created a startup company at Houston Startup Weekend focused on improving government permitting processes (if you have operated a business, you know the pain). Our startup, PermitMe, won the competition and now is competing for votes in the Global Startup Battle versus 120 other startups from around theRead… Read more »
In case you missed it, the latest study from the official Federal Salary Council (FSC) asserts that white-collar federal employees (“feds”) are paid a whopping 35% less than their private sector equivalents. Are federal executives really being short changed by more than one-third of their salary versus private sector peers? Feds don’t work in governmentRead… Read more »
Are strange forces at work driving change in your organization? Why do I need to transform the organization? Wouldn’t a little tweak here or change there be good enough? I like to use the term organizational transformation because I think it more clearly portrays the shift in thinking and execution required to effect real changeRead… Read more »
Warren C. Hoy was recently named plant manager of a DuPont plant near Buffalo, NY. A DuPont employee for 31 years, Hoy has some great thoughts about leadership that were reported in a Buffalo News article. Through his 31 years of experience Hoy has learned the following about leadership: – As a leader you don’tRead… Read more »
So by now we’ve all heard about the scandal with retired general and former head of the CIA, David Petraeus. Some of my European colleagues have balked that we can be a bit uptight in the U.S. when it comes to mixing business and personal – and that may be the case. However, as thatRead… Read more »
Most public sector agencies are designed as centres of expertise on policy and service delivery. By gathering, or training, experts in a given topical area and marshalling and directing this expertise to resolve specific issues and goals, agencies have been designed to design and deliver effective and sound policy and service delivery solutions to governmentsRead… Read more »
I often question the results for each accomplishment that comes out from a leadership or management report, especially in the public sectors. I often ask myself, “Do I know this?, who has benefited from this?, is it a quick fix for a political gain or for the benefit of the organization and the employees?, isRead… Read more »
There are many important attributes of great leaders; integrity is at the top of the list. Here are two leadership and integrity stories that you might want to share with your teams. Both stories have something very interesting in common. Story One A number of years ago Al Capone owned virtually all of Chicago. HeRead… Read more »