Keep Calm and Lead On: 5 Fundamentals for Effective Leaders
As a leader, you must be able to take full responsibility for any failures or mishaps. Is that something you can accept? Use this as a reminder or a quick guide to be an effective leader.
Praise Effort, Not Talent
Praise effort and resilience and avoid singling out intelligence, smartness or talent.
FirstNet for IT Application Developers
The need for a dedicated public safety network is getting bigger with the increased use of wireless devices.
Why You Should Join a Nonprofit Board
The silo effect is something we have all probably felt within our organizations, but we can also feel it within the communities we work in. Joining a nonprofit board is a strategic and beneficial way to bridge that gap and improve connectivity.
Assemble the Government Avengers: A Comic Book Lesson in Collaboration
In the world of government, we have many common threats to face. Though it may be possible to withstand them on our own, we make ourselves much mightier when we band together and tackle them as a team.
Navigating Your Federal Retirement: Your Successful Passage Into Financial Freedom
One thing has become abundantly clear to me in over six years of helping federal employees look forward to retirement: you cannot plan for retirement successfully if you don’t know and understand all of your options.
The Modern Government CIO
How can the vendor community help government CIOs embrace and act on the innovations that will lead to more successful outcomes? First, we have to help them execute on the key points that will create success, regardless of the service delivery model they choose
Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) and Performance
“Make It So” The Need to Link Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) to the Performance I believe that OMB Circular Number A-11, Part 6 entitled “Strategic Plans, Annual Performance Plans, Performance Reviews, and Annual Program Performance Reports” is a framework that can be refined and incorporated into the Performance Reference Model (PRM) and the Business ReferenceRead… Read more »
Just Another Survey
I will not be participating in the FEVS this year. I have enough disengagement drivers already in my workplace.
TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up
Stocks were initially down this week but the bulls fought back to keep things at par as traders awaited the FOMC policy statement. Nothing particularly new was announced by the Fed; they sustained their dovish behavior as they know how sensitive the market can be otherwise. The statement didn’t change the mood of the weekRead… Read more »