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USDA’s County Fair Draws a Large Crowd of CFC Supporters
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) held an old-fashioned county fair today on the patio of their Whitten Building. The event featured food, a rummage sale, and many games of chance. All proceeds went towards this year’s Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNCA). One of the event’s highlights was the DeputyRead… Read more »
Employee Double-Dipping Damages Government in Multiple Ways
I personally was shocked at today’s USA Today article on double-dipping by state employees: http://bit.ly/6TiQel. But beyond highlighting the basic sleaziness of the practice, the article missed the many negative impacts to the long-term success of government. In short, governments shoot themselves in the foot when such practices are tolerated. The first casualty is reputation.Read… Read more »
Webinar next Wednesday on VA’s Supplier Relationship Transformation Effort
The Department of Veterans Affairs is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, December 9 at 10:00 AM EST to discuss the status of its Supplier Relationship Transformation Effort. VA began this innovative effort, working with the vendor community, to effectively and efficiently deliver the highest quality cost-effective products and services to Veterans, at the right time,Read… Read more »
Building a Wiki Community: Pet Projects
Since launching the moderated wiki, Whorunsgov has, on a couple of occasions, created projects to entice people to contribute. We try to focus these projects on narrow topics that people have strong opinions about. The projects include: 1) Tracking Blue Dog Democrats’ stances on the proposed health-care bill 2) Highlighting advocates and lobbyists that workRead… Read more »
Taking the Initiative
As a leadership coach, one of the issues that I hear about from my clients at the GS-14/15 level of the federal government is the lack of opportunities to demonstrate their capabilities and competencies through new and meaningful projects, tasks, or assignments. Often they will express their frustrations by saying that their senior manager doesRead… Read more »
DAUNTING CHALLENGES: Cultural Change | Paradigm Shifts
Recently on Twitter, a IT senior leader mentioned how daunting making change is today in any global enterprise. He invited me to share my views on leading cultural change and paradigm shifts based on the changes in progress in Enterprise Computing. It was impossible to respond in 140 characters :-), but I wrote a fewRead… Read more »
NSPS Rollback – Tell your story
If anyone has heard or experienced the change from NSPS back to GS can you please share your information.
Protection for you and your home
My daughter-in-law passed along this email … it makes good sense! If you don’t have a gun, here’s a more humane way to wreck someone’s evil plans for you. Did you know this? I didn’t. I never really thought of it before. I guess I can get rid of the baseball bat. A friend whoRead… Read more »
Come on into a real collective intelligence environment – FedW
We are in Google Wave. If you don’t have an account there. There are two good places to start with joining – one in Facebook and one in Google Groups. Hope to see you there. Mike