Benefits of Failure

Before you can have a breakthrough, you often need a breakdown. Failure acknowledges an ending, which is also an opportunity to start something new. The prospect of failure concentrates the mind, inspires creativity, focus, fear. Outwitting failure builds confidence, relationships, esprit de corps. Failure can cause you to examine your reality more closely. I oftenRead… Read more »

Who Is Better At Making Government Decisions: Bureaucrats or Elected Officials?

Carl Friedrich and Herman Finer debate the most effective way to ensure accountability of public officials In the Public Administration world, this question is almost always referred to as the Friedrich-Finer debate. In the beginning of the 1940s, Carl Friedrich and Herman Finer debate the most effective way to ensure accountability of public officials. ThisRead… Read more »

And Now a Word from Our (Conference) Sponsors

ELGL is hosting its inaugural conference on October 4 at the Kennedy School. In the coming weeks, the conference planning committee will begin rolling out the details. For now, we want to acknowledge Cosgrave Vergeer Kestler and Key Bank for being the first two companies to sign on as conference sponsors. ELGL corporate members areRead… Read more »

The next bus will come when it comes

Data is not a service. Service is not data. Knowledge is power, but it’s not always very much power. My default mode of transport in London is the bus. Having information about when the next bus is coming has been exciting and empowering, even if the shine has worn off a little bit. But I’mRead… Read more »

Keep Opening to Your Purpose

No one doubted that Oprah Winfrey would wow Harvard University in our nation’s springtime tradition of commencement addresses by celebrities of various stripes and vocations. True to any speech that resonates with audiences it is not only the truths with dustings of humor, it is the glimpses of the people delivering them that keeps usRead… Read more »

CTOvision Podcast, an interview with Alicia Saia of MarkLogic

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Alicia Saia, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, Public Sector at MarkLogic. Alicia and I talked a lot about how MarkLogic is helping to change the way people look at data, how it integrates with their current generation and legacy systems, and how MarkLogic is helping agencies and corporationsRead… Read more »