Basic Info Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin Why I bought it I like the way Seth Godin thinks. I first saw Godin on TED. The talk not only prompted me to the book but also subsequently write about it here. Moreover, his ideas on leadership and standing out generally appeal to the artistRead… Read more »
The City of Portland has designed a public toilet that it has patented and is selling to other municipalities. The public restroom contains the following features: Stainless steel anti-graffiti wall panels mounted on a slim-profile steel structure, that weighs a fraction of a typical restroom, making it easier to install in high traffic locations. ItRead… Read more »
To introduce this post on No straight lines I want to take you on a journey. That’s on the basis that to know where we are and where we are heading we actually need to know where we’ve been. Due to the nature of the work I’ve been involved in for the past nineteen yearsRead… Read more »
A garment worker in India, who is working in an urban factory, thinks “I’ve moved to the city to work here and earn a living for my family, and now I can’t survive on these wages.” The worker’s employer, a garment manufacturer, thinks, “I’m getting pinched by my buyer. My profit margins are absurdly thinRead… Read more »
FusionX is a firm made up of long term friends and trusted associates who I have served with for over a decade (including close friends Matt Devost and Tom Parker). I know them well and consider them to be among the most trusted actors in cyber security. Their methods and models help enterprises discover andRead… Read more »
Here’s an interesting article on productivity and overtime that I think is worthwhile reading. . . Only if I could convince my boss that this is true. “Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity” by Sara Robinson
By the time, we’ve gotten to the Fifth Gate in the Leadership Pipeline, we should have spent some quality time mastering the previous four. This gate is punctuated by enormous complexity and significant (perhaps the most significant of all the gates) changes in thinking. The Business Manager needs to come to terms with being highlyRead… Read more »
In government, we are the masters of overcomplication. We setup committees, author manuals, and track changes until we’re blue in the face. We write information memoranda, action memoranda, and seek an endless list of clearances for the back pages of each. You would think our routinized collaboration would yield an organizational ethos of communication, mutualRead… Read more »
Hacking the hacktivist: The inside scoop on how Anonymous works by GovLoop Insights 2011 may very well be the year of Anonymous — the hactivist group took down the Justice Department website, Stratfor, mastercard, defense contractor Vanguard and even the Vatican. Their reach is impressive…and even more so when you consider how Anonymous runs. TheRead… Read more »
One of the important steps that an organization can take is improving its knowledge management programs. Knowledge management can be used to describe numerous initiatives, but the central goal is to preserve institutional knowledge. Organizations have taken different approaches to knowledge management, by either using a high level software service or other low cost initiativesRead… Read more »