First pay your bills, then love your work

Follow this or any other website dealing with profesional life or organizational leadership and you quickly see a common theme of encourging individuals to focus on self actualization, leaders to focus on serving followers and employees to live their passion through their work. Doing the job, taking responsability for deliverables and earning a living appearRead… Read more »

Creating and Getting Assistant City Manager Positions

They are job titles that are becoming more elusive: Assistant City Manager Assistant to the City Manager Management Analyst Once thought as a succession planning pathway for the next generation of city managers, generalist mid-manager positions are often hard to come by as local governments forgo filling these roles during times of budget uncertainty. AlexRead… Read more »

Early And Late

Slow observed that golf bets are won before the first hole and after the eighteenth. I am ten minutes to an hour early for group meetings, depending on the meeting. If they are important enough for me to attend in the first place, I want to have sufficient time to work with everyone who hasRead… Read more »

Leading in the digital age

I’m hosting a webinar on the 20th to discuss effective communications and engagement strategies and how NationBuilder can help. If you’d like to join, RSVP here. Thanks! Related: Go, Government Efficiency Long Beach, SF, Bordentown: Pioneering digital democracy with NationBuilder Government New ‘Civitas’ theme released

New Industry Survey – Budget Impasse Already Severely Impacting Federal Contractors

The federal budget process has practically ground to a halt. Centurion Research Solutions recently conducted a survey of its clients to ascertain the impact of this impasse on their current and future business growth plans and, in some cases, financial survival. In a nutshell – the survey illustrates the drastic effects this situation is alreadyRead… Read more »

02.06.13 Your Morning Buzz

Monopoly fans vote to add cat, toss iron tokens Welcome New Member: Lowell Crow, US Navy, Community Manager Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Join ELGL: Students (free), individuals ($20), and organizations ($250) Upcoming Forums: TODAY: ELGL Forum with Mark Zusman, Willamette Week Editor March 1: ELGL Conference Planning Committee Meeting March 7: Tiffany Couch, Financial InvestigationRead… Read more »

Agenda for Willamette Week Forum

ELGL Forum with Mark Zusman, Willamette Week Editor Meeting Agenda Can I Get a Ride? Willamette Week Editor Mark Zusman – February 6, 2013 – Lakewood Center, Lake Oswego Original post

CBO Projection A Bit of Good Budget News, Sort Of

Having barely avoided falling off the fiscal cliff on January 1, we soon found ourselves sliding down a slippery slope toward a dark and gloomy abyss. The sequester was postponed for only two months, the debt ceiling was raised, but only until May, and we continue to hurtle toward the March 27 expiration of theRead… Read more »