Transform Communities Using Geospatial Solutions

To advocate for healthy, safe and vibrant communities, the Institute for Public Strategies created a five-prong strategy, all of which use GIS to achieve efficiency and effectiveness.

Gratitude: Why It Matters and How to Discover It in Everyday Life

Being grateful for good things in your life, however small, can profoundly improve your well-being. Here are 10 simple ways to make gratitude part of your day.

Getting a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP): How to Try to Determine if It Is Not Sincere

Sometimes, performance improvement plans are used, pro-forma, to pave the way to a firing. Here are some tips to tell if that’s what’s happening to you.

Holiday Homework for Federal Business Executives: Reading Project 2025 Before the Storm Hits

Federal executives face a rare opportunity this holiday season: a pause to take stock of how Project 2025 will shape how they buy in 2026.

A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization

I’ve been working in government technology for more than two decades, spending a non-trivial amount of that time modernizing legacy systems to improve how they work and the digital experiences they support. Recently, I came to a somewhat uncomfortable conclusion — I was probably doing it wrong the whole time. Traditional legacy modernization approaches —Read… Read more »

The Government Doesn’t Have a Talent Pipeline Problem. It Has a Talent Utilization Problem.

The workforce challenge is often seen as a hiring and retention crisis. That obscures a more basic issue: the chronic underutilization of existing talent.