Seeing Ourselves Clearly: Overcoming Leadership Blind Spots

Building strong, trusting relationships is essential for gaining a more objective view of ourselves, our ideas, our decisions, and our leadership.

Career Advice to Pivot with Purpose Following Federal Service

Municipalities and state agencies across the country are hungry for experienced leadership, operational acumen, and cross-functional collaboration

Can the Gig Economy Fix the Public Sector’s Skills Shortage?

These influences and others are altering the number of people funneling into government positions.

Success Can Mean Many Things

There are a lot of posts on social media about success,But what is success? Is success a big house, or a great job, or a fancy yacht?

Beyond Burnout: How Smarter Systems Can Protect Public Sector Teams

What makes burnout so tough to fix in government work is that it’s baked into how the work happens.

Validation Is Leadership: Why Your Team Needs More Than Direction

When was the last time you recognized a team member for solving a challenging problem or rallying with others to hit a big goal, on time?

A Positive Article About Dying!

A Positive Article About Dying!

I appreciate my demise is a regular theme of my writing. But maybe it is important that I prompt contemplation of this huge, inevitable event that most of us spend our lives trying to ignore. And perhaps a more useful outcome of my reflections is that they were not...

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The Root of All Diversity

The Root of All Diversity

As 2015 reluctantly winds down to its final days, I find a highly-charged momentum continues on a topic that has become and will seemingly remain among the most important objectives of any organization and its leaders. Across the country, from companies to communities...

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How to Avoid Being an Unemployed Millennial

How to Avoid Being an Unemployed Millennial

Recent news has shown an improvement in the unemployment rate, but are all generations created equal among the numbers? Not quite. Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce found that 40% of millennials are unemployed, the worst being for graduates...

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Life, Simply the Best!

Life, Simply the Best!

I was in Amsterdam last week and I took the obligatory stroll through its world famous red light district. I was surprised at what my reaction was.  I thought it was all a bit sad. Girls with fake smiles giving false portrayals of their real selves. Men who were...

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