Happy Halloween from Hank Paulson and Barack Obama!
“Something Scary for Everyone,” or, “The Lengths I’ll Go for Art”
Miscellaneous
Taking Back the Country, the Language, and the Party
Like many, I have long dreamed of the day when the American people would rise up and take back our country. Like Bastille Day. Like many, I am a wee bit afraid to believe it’s actually happening now. After all, we dared to become hopeful in 2000 (at last! a president who cares about theRead… Read more »
IBM Center Launches Transition Resources
Next week, we’ll know who the next President will be. And he’ll have to hit the ground running to deal with the mega-challenges he’ll face. His first task will be to put in place his team of executives to run agencies that oftentimes dwarf even Fortune 50 companies. How do they get up to speed?Read… Read more »
McCrindle Research on Gen Y
Generation Y has a reputation for little company loyalty and poor job commitment. Clearly Generation Y have a shorter tenure in a job but the cause isn’t so much a lack of loyalty or commitment but a desire for variety, challenge, and change. This high job mobility is not just a factor of being young,Read… Read more »
Contribute for Causes. Connect Fed Caring. Collaborative Force Compassion.
As you can tell by the 500% increase in star related paraphanelia adorning government cubicles, the Combined Federal Campaign has arrived. I am a big fan of the CFC as the marquis charity event on the Federal calendar (and by event I mean 4 month long philanthropalooza.) I love the CFC because it shines theRead… Read more »
The Public Manager – Special Issue
Alan Balutis, Director and Distinguished Fellow for CISCO’s Internet Business Solutions Group, distributed print copies of this special issue of The Public Manager yesterday at the Young Government Leader’s event on Web 2.0. In order to help him spread this message far and wide, I created the ebook below over at Calameo and wanted toRead… Read more »
US State Department and Web 2.0 – Take 2
Originally posted at http://generationshift.blospot.com. A couple weeks ago, I blogged about the State Department’s use of Web 2.0, giving them an overall grade of “A” for their wide array of blogs, wikis, social network sites, podcasts, and a YouTube channel. Let’s make it an A+. Between that post and now, I had the chance toRead… Read more »
Sabotage
This item via FedBlog is an oldie, but today I have been reminded of the fifth column working among us.