Why Curiosity Is Your Agency’s Secret Weapon

Innovation often feels like a rare, big breakthrough that changes everything. But in reality, innovation is driven by curiosity.

Nature’s Remedy: How You Can Combat Burnout and Boost Well-Being

In our modern world, we’re often caught in a whirlwind of thoughts, plans, and to-do lists. We become disconnected from subtle cues and signals that our bodies constantly send us — the gentle nudge to rest, the surge of energy that invites movement, the quiet whisper of intuition.

Transform Communities Using Geospatial Solutions

To advocate for healthy, safe and vibrant communities, the Institute for Public Strategies created a five-prong strategy, all of which use GIS to achieve efficiency and effectiveness.

Getting a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP): How to Try to Determine if It Is Not Sincere

Sometimes, performance improvement plans are used, pro-forma, to pave the way to a firing. Here are some tips to tell if that’s what’s happening to you.

A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization

I’ve been working in government technology for more than two decades, spending a non-trivial amount of that time modernizing legacy systems to improve how they work and the digital experiences they support. Recently, I came to a somewhat uncomfortable conclusion — I was probably doing it wrong the whole time. Traditional legacy modernization approaches —Read… Read more »

The Government Doesn’t Have a Talent Pipeline Problem. It Has a Talent Utilization Problem.

The workforce challenge is often seen as a hiring and retention crisis. That obscures a more basic issue: the chronic underutilization of existing talent.