Category: leadership
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Ellen the JCC Volunteer of the Year
Congratulations to Ellen for being selected as the volunteer of the year by the JCC. The page summarizing her activities is here: Ellen’s award summary from the JCC May Center Scene 2013. All that and she puts up with me on a regular basis, not such an easy task.
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Earthquakes, Emergency Training, and COOP
When I was at the Department of Transportation … It occurs to me that a lot of my writing starts with that phrase. I haven’t yet decided if I use it because I learned a lot there or because I think people will be more likely to listen if I start a discussion with it.…
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Dave Wennergren – Solving Problems vs Managing Dualities
I recently had the pleasure of listening to Dave Wennergren, one of the more thoughtful Government IT and Management leaders, discuss the areas he was focuse on in his current job as the Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer for DoD. There was one particular anecdote that Dave told that I thought was in particular worth…
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Leadership: Winning versus Avoiding Losing
I have written before about Leadership, most recently here, https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2011/01/24/on-leadership/, though it is often on my mind these days in my role as the COO of a small, but mighty company, Powertek Corporation, www.powertekcorporation.com. A few days ago I was talking to one of the employees about working with others and they mentioned how they felt…
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Lessons From a Political CIO by Dan Mintz CIO, Department of Transportation
This morning in the Washington Post there was a column discussing the regular transition of political appointees, http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/fedcoach/2011/02/political-appointee-merry-go-round.html?hpid=smartliving. For those of you are are thinking of becoming a political appointee or wonder about the process, it is worth reading. In December, 2008, I wrote a column about what I learned from personally being a political…
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On Leadership
I often refer to Leadership as being the ability to get people to do things when you are not in the room. For most of my professional career I did not particularly think about the differences between management and leadership. I was not in a position where it mattered particularly; I was always ‘in the…