The ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference will be held in Williamsburg October 28-30 this year. It will bring together eight or nine hundred government and business executives for relatively intense collaboration in 16 working sessions, and provide plenary addresses from a war hero, an Acting Administrator, a renowned theoretical physicist, a prominent television journalist, and theRead… Read more »
Jesse asked, “How do I get my best performers to take on new tasks? They are my best performers because they are fully engaged. By definition, they don’t have extra time for anything new.” Fair enough. We can’t get anything more from them without dropping something. And without adopting new capabilities, the organization dies. RecognizeRead… Read more »
Here’s an article I put on GovLoop in 2010. It got a lot of attention on GovLoop and other a few other sites like Federal News Radio. On one site, there was a lot of comments that I would call hate mail if my email had been out there. Two years later, I still largelyRead… Read more »
A recent European Union initiative encouraging green construction practices reflects a growing global interest in energy-efficient and sustainable building. Greener construction practices occur on multiple levels, from site location and material selection to choosing construction equipment. Practical and Environmental Considerations The EU plan fulfills both environmental and political objectives. The environmental benefits are obvious: stimulatingRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Of Slivovitz and Twitter. This somewhat-ambiguous independent clause of the first sentence of this Washington Post article says everything you need to know: “The Secret Service has formally adopted new policies on the use of alcohol and social media, “ Of Quads and Quora. Colleges are using social media in more sophisticated waysRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top news and tech stories for 4 October, 2012. This report from Gizmodo highlights a petrifying new malware – The Man in the Browser scam apparently just got real(time). The scam can now take your data and parse it in real-time to steal all of your monies (or something likeRead… Read more »
The semiotics of plumbing is a slightly unlikely topic, but having not long ago discussed the affordance of soap dispensing, I now turn to the tricky question of how to turn on a tap. There follows a ludicrously detailed description of an utterly trivial process. If that prospect does not fill your heart with joy,Read… Read more »
It’s not about the technology, its about the people. It’s a phrase I’ve uttered probably more than a thousand times in the last five years. It stems from the understanding that technologies will come and go (quickly, almost at a whim) but behaviours change slowly and as a result we should focus our attention onRead… Read more »
Something I’ve had on the backburner for awhile has been the development of a better way to share and compare political party policies. If you’ve ever looked at the policy platforms of different political parties in the same election campaign, you’d recognise that each writes their policy in a different format, including different information andRead… Read more »
Hello blog. I know it has been a a week since I posted. I want to apologize and explain it is not out of a lack of love, just a tremendous amount of travel. And of course, the fact that I also have this guy to take care of. (And yes, that is us inRead… Read more »