People are Like Plants: 4 Tips to Cultivate Your People into Hardy Crops

People are like plants; they need someone to cultivate them so they can grow into hardy crops. Here are four tips for leaders to cultivate plants into hardy crops.

Why Your City Should Create Talent, Not Just Attract It

Prioritizing attracting talent over growing it locally is like running on a treadmill hoping you’ll win the marathon. Instead, government officials and community leaders should prioritize accessible training opportunities for individuals already living in the region.

The Elephant and the Swan: Managing the Unspoken and the Unknowns

From a managerial perspective, what exactly are we doing to address the unspoken and the unknowns? In other words, how do we excel in anything other than the ideal environment?

3 Ways to Cultivate a Mindset for Success

We act out of beliefs, but often aren’t aware of what those beliefs are, or how they affect us. Here are three powerful tools you can use to shift your mindset for more positive results in your life.

Four Steps to Ease (Squeeze) Professional Development into Your Jam-Packed Schedule

Learn how you can fit professional development into the busiest of schedules.

5 Ways to Love Your Job More

Five tips that will help you not only grow in your job, but learn to really, really like it.

4 Counterintuitive Leadership Lessons

To help others out on their leadership journeys, I’m writing today about four counterintuitive lessons I’ve learned leadership.

Why Digital Services Needs a Growth Team

I applaud the growth of digital services teams to help build modern digital solutions to core government problems. However, let’s not forget about getting distribution in the mix.