How Leaders Lose Trust in a Single Moment
One conversation revealed how quickly credibility collapses when a leader treats a person like a task. Read the full piece to see why these moments matter more than any 360-performance review.
From Talent Gap to Capability Pipeline: Rethinking the Future Workforce in an AI-Driven World
The future workforce challenge isn’t a talent shortage, it’s a pipeline design problem. As AI and cyber reshape work, organizations must shift from filling roles to building continuous, adaptive capability systems that produce decision-ready leaders at scale. Those who invest in integrated workforce pipelines today will define competitive advantage tomorrow.
The Drawback of Using AI to Send Work E-Mails
Many people use artificial intelligence to help them compose work emails. AI may streamline that professional task, but there are drawbacks to relying on AI-generated messages.
The Change Work That AI Cannot Do
In the age of AI, leaders must be uniquely collaborative and strategic: Traditional management styles will not address employee unease with technology-driven change. Here are practical tips for AI implementation that a workforce can support.
Agentic AI in Government Isn’t a Technology Problem. It’s a Data Readiness Problem.
Agentic AI offers capabilities beyond what earlier AI can do. But agentic AI’s autonomous nature amplifies an organization’s underlying data, governance and other weaknesses and requires a new IT mindset.
Using AI to Write Your Work E-Mails
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a significant time-saver at work, but there are drawbacks when using the technology to help write work-related emails.
The Invisible Constraint on AI: Why Infrastructure, not Innovation, Will Define Government Advantage
AI is no longer constrained by innovation; it is constrained by infrastructure, energy, and compute availability. As demand accelerates, leaders must shift from focusing on applications to designing resilient, scalable systems that enable sustained advantage. The future will be defined by who can power, govern, and scale AI effectively.
The Myth of Correcting in Private
When an off-color joke lands with a thud and every eye turns to you, knowing when to break the “praise in public, correct in private” rule can save your team’s trust and your organization’s liability. Read on for moments that demand immediate, on-the-spot correction and how to steady the room without making things worse.
How to Work With an Autistic Coworker
How should you work with an autistic colleague? Accommodating their work and communication styles can go a long way toward treating them with dignity.
When AI Becomes the Reader, Structure Becomes Authority
When AI systems process government information, they can’t always tell if a policy is current or even if it’s official. Structure provides the clues.