After a weather related shortened week, stocks saw some modest gains with TSP fund strength coming from the S and I funds. However, momentum may have turned bearish with Friday seeing 1% losses after Thursday’s big gains. On Friday, the October jobs report came in with a gain of 171,000 jobs, better than the 125,000Read… Read more »
After you have isolated the proper GSA Schedule, you will want to view the list of Special Item Numbers (SIN’s) under that Schedule. SIN’s are the subcategories of a GSA Schedule. For example the Facilities Maintenance Schedule has a SIN for Electrician services and another for HVAC services, and so on. These sub-categories can helpRead… Read more »
Golf truth: Good shots come from experience. Experience comes from bad shots. I was watching a group deal with unexpected results. Their first inclination was to explain what was wrong. One guy started and everyone else piled on. It was just a made up opinion that became shared. Once they agreed, there was no pointRead… Read more »
Why do we use performance appraisals? It seems when we use these appraisals we are knocking “hard workers” down to nothing, kind of like a form of bullying to power play. If you don’t like that employee or if the employee had to testify against upper management, they can use your appraisals against you –Read… Read more »
Turn Around, Don’t Drown Low water crossings aren’t something we get a lot of here in San Francisco, but many Austinites are intimately familiar with them. Flash floods and sudden high-volume rain cause runoff and will quickly fill or overflow riverbeds and low lying areas and cause low water crossings to close, making streets impassable.Read… Read more »
By Sam Williford, Associate Consultant Starting last week, and into the forseeable future, every level of government was called upon to work together to prepare for and clean up after Hurricane Sandy, which struck the area this past week. The recent disagreements between New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford highlightRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda We had a little weather on the East Coast: Nextgov writes up the uses and limits of social media. Tech Crunch reports that FEMA encourages using social media to free up wireless bandwidth. Alex Howard wrote two articles: on NYC’s PLAN and how agencies need to build their networks before they need them.Read… Read more »
I found this interview from a Mindfulness Group in Linkedinhttp://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2012/11/working-with-mindfulness-an-interview-with-mirabai-bush/?goback=%2Egde_2042793_member_181354768I am noticing an increase in mindful awareness groups, discussions, and blogs in the social media outlets. Is anyone seeing mindfulness practices in the workplace? Do you think it would be beneficial if you did?
By JonathanTabb Wired.com had an excellent article last week about Mobile Malware and it got me thinking about future computer threats a little. Let’s see where my mind went: Mobile devices far outrank traditional computers and the gap is only growing. The Wired article points to only one of the problems with this, the lackRead… Read more »
By SeanLawson Though cybersecurity has been a concern for decades, we have seen an uptick of concern during the last four years. The Obama administration has made the issue a priority. Early in his term, the President gave a speech on the subject and the next month the Secretary of Defense announced the creation ofRead… Read more »