Month: August 2013
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Are You A Visionary or a Leader? Ask Steve Jobs
Screenshot via Anonymous Art of Revolution The new movie Jobs is out and has crashed and burned on impact at the box office. Even Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak weighed in with some tepid criticism: “I was attentive and entertained but not greatly enough to recommend the movie.” Television has done a better job. This weekend I watched “Pop Innovators Presents: Steve Jobs” on E!…
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So You Have A Dead Intranet, Now What?
Photo by Pete via Flickr Yesterday’s post on Intranets focused on control issues and how to resolve them. It consisted of notes from a keynote presentation at Drupal4Gov featuring a three-year case study on this subject. For the sake of focus I left a very important piece of the talk on the cutting room floor, and…
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Building The Government Enterprise: What’s Missing Is The Brand
Screenshot of the 9 recommendations from PPS modified by me to ask a key question: Where’s the brand? Yesterday I stumbled upon a C-Span program of intense interest. It aired August 8, 2013 and featured a presentation of recommendations in in a joint report by the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton: “Building…
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An Open Data Model For Talent Management
Photo by Susan NYC via Flickr Over the years I’ve been blessed with some brilliant managers. They had varying levels of technical skill but an outstanding ability to understand and harness human capital. And one of the things they always had in common was this: They never held people back. These managers understood the true…
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