Social Connect via: The public service is good at many things and yet faces challenges in many others. One area of great personal interest is the demographic shift as aging baby boomers retire from the public service. One important element of this retirement is the loss of institutional and corporate knowledge that has the potentialRead… Read more »
I just did a quick search on USAJobs to find out how many positions are currently posted: over 5000! Our natural tendency with that information is often to apply to more positions. Don’t fall into the simple math trap–the more positions I apply to, the better my chances. In my mind, quality trumps quantity 99Read… Read more »
Patricia A. Gabow, M.D., CEO of Denver Health and Hospital Authority, has spectacularly improved Denver’s public hospital and busiest trauma center by asking the right questions and implementing Lean. In a blog post by Matthew Weinstock at Hospitals and Health Network Gabow says, “I was really becoming frustrated that we were doing things pretty muchRead… Read more »
We try hard to understand communications of all sort, from the enterprise to ISP’s to big telecom to home and business Wi-Fi the 4G LTE so many of us have been looking forward to for so long. Statistically, one of the most popular posts on the CTOvision.com site is this one titled “How fast isRead… Read more »
Social media followers and fans are not particularly good metric for judging the success or ROI of a social media campaign and I’d advise strongly against measuring success through these numbers alone. However as businesses attach a commercial value to their mailing and email lists, as a corporate asset, I thought it would still beRead… Read more »
I was confronted today by a checklist posted by a friend – 10 questions that “should be asked before your wedding day.” I found the questions absurd, as someone with 29 years of marriage under my belt, and suggested she pass these before long-married couples, and count the ones who say, “yeah, that’s what weRead… Read more »
The focus of the Thought Leadership Executive Level Think Tank Training session is compliance with Executive Order 13583 and Executive Order 13548 on diversity and inclusion in the federal sector and strategies and best practices for diversity and inclusion within industry and other fields. Supervisors/Executives (thought leaders, influencers & visionaries) from government, private sector, nonRead… Read more »
I write a lot about the importance of web presence for businesses and individuals, how to create it and how to sustain it. But right now authors are in a uniquely powerful and also potentially hazardous position in terms of their web presence, and in this post I want to speak to those issues specifically.Read… Read more »
In principle, when parties cannot agree on an issue the next peaceful step is for them to decide how they are going to decide the issue. For instance, “We can’t agree on the floor plan for the new building, so we’re going to spend time on this at our next meeting, hear both sides, andRead… Read more »
This post was submitted by our good friends and long-time NCDD members Len and Libby Traubman… Elie Wiesel said, and we experience: “People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.” We are part of a 19-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue preparing for its 238th meeting here on the San Francisco Peninsula. ToRead… Read more »