When asked, most people believe they take 100% responsibility for their lives. Do you? Have you ever blamed someone or something for things that has gone wrong? Have you ever complained about someone or something? If you have/do, you give up responsibility. Recently on Face Book I reconnected with an acquaintance from my youth. AsRead… Read more »
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Reason No. 2 for “bite-sized” government: Reach out and touch someone.
The earliest scholars of public administration often struggled with the exact definition of bureaucracy. Is it the invisible fourth branch of government? Do bureaucrats derive their power politically or managerially? I believe bureaucracy is best defined when we reach to the constitutional undertones and examine government “by the people, for the people.” How do practitionersRead… Read more »
How to Ensure Effective Outreach
How many spokespeople does your organization have? How many officials from your organization are tasked with ‘spreading the word,’ and talking with different constituents about your mission, the services and support you provide, or new programs that you’re implementing? When it comes to implementing effective outreach, it is crucial that every spokesperson for your organizationRead… Read more »
How Are You Clumping?
“Human beings are social animals. We come together two by two in friendships and marriages; we form families and teams and the larger aggregations of practices, communities, societies, and nations. These groups assemble to achieve distinctive aims and to provide the satisfactions of sociability…Management thinkers, influenced by economists, have been slower to see the importanceRead… Read more »
CB2: Can This Guy Keep Us Interested In Haiti?
Le Président Jean? I, like many of you, read this morning that former-Fugee Wyclef Jean may announce a run for president of Haiti. Jean was born in Port-au-Prince, raised in Brooklyn, and went on to become a famous hip-hop artist and industry entrepreneur. After the earthquake he helped raised over $9 million for Haiti andRead… Read more »
DIVERSITY Drives CREATIVITY and INNOVATION: History proves it!
Every once in a while, something or someone pops up on our path to affirm that we are headed in the right direction, by pointing us to WISDOM that affirms what we all need to know, documented long ago — perhaps in a different way. When we least expect it, a supporting “proof point” showsRead… Read more »
Statement Of MEP CEO Chris Taylor To The Commission On Wartime Contracting
Available at http://www.missionep.com/news/press-release?id=21 Chairman Thibault, Chairman Shays, distinguished members of the Commission: I am honored to have the opportunity to represent Mission Essential Personnel, LLC (“MEP”) before you today. Our entire company appreciates the Commission’s hard work in reviewing U.S. Government contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I look forward to today’s specific discussion ofRead… Read more »
Its a BIG MAC WORLD OUT THERE: Investing on a burger?
I get a kick out of simple stories to explain complex ideas. So as part of my Global Business class for my Masters I was instructed to price index a Big Mac to explain the theory of purchasing power parity (PPP). The “Economist” does this annualy, but their results weren’t out for this year. IRead… Read more »
GovReads: Outcasts United
The town of Clarkston, GA never wanted to represent anything. It did not want to make an impact, be studied, written about in newspapers, visited by media, or become a hub of diversity. But Clarkston got all that and more. This small town on the outskirts of Georgia is where many families go once theyRead… Read more »
Top 10 Privacy News Stories
Dr. GovLoop just got his latest installment of “Privacy News Highlights” and wanted to share the best of the bunch with you. Here are the top 10 links – the stuff that I thought would most interest you. US � Senate Unanimously Passes Faster FOIA Act of 2010 The Senate unanimously passed the Faster FOIARead… Read more »