Weekly Round-up: March 22, 2013

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This post has been updated to include Dan Chenok's contributions.

 

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Emerging Trends in Innovation and Social Media: Identity Management, Part II

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In my last post on emerging trends, I wrote about online identity management and how it could benefit individuals, governments, and the economy.  For this post, I want to concentrate on how a more complete identity management scheme would benefit government managers in the three ways that have been the focus of this series: Real-time data collection and analysis to drive decision-making; efficient use of physical  and communication networks; and managing citizen participation in agency activities.

Leadership: It Depends on the Deck You've Been Dealt (Part 4)

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But in reality, the success of a leader depends on the context, or environment, in which they work – the deck they’ve been dealt. Even the heroes. 

But as the context – the workplace, the workers, and the work – change (because we are in more of a knowledge-based economy) -- a different type of leader tends to be more successful, especially when the challenge is cross-agency and/or cross-sector. The “lone hero” isn’t always the most effective leader in this new world.  In fact, the best leaders tend to share leadership in any large-scale change effort.  For example: 

Weekly Round-up: March 29, 2013

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This post has been updated to include Dan Chenok's contribution

 

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Bright new ideas edition!

How Understanding Behavior Influences Program Performance

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Government managers, however, can use these new approaches to dramatically improve the performance of their programs, if done right.

Weekly Round-up: February 15, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Climate Change Is Now a High Risk

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Typically, we think of the GAO focusing on territory familiar to auditors, which is what most of the high risk list does:  managing federal real property, DOD supply chain management, NASA acquisitions management, modernizing federal disability programs.  But now it has added a politically-charged topic to its list, but has taken the middle of the road on the topic.

Power and Privacy: What We Can Learn from Superheroes

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The explicit message of modern superhero stories is best summed up in Spiderman’s origin tale, “with great power comes great responsibility.”  But the implicit message is that some people are able to exert greater influence over events than others.  And, whether in the DC or Marvel universe, there is a relationship between the way someone can exert their influence and the kind of privacy they create for themselves.

Transforming the National Archives: A Conversation with David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

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The National Archives is more than just the nation's record keeper and protector of records. It is the steward of the American story that preserves the past to protect the future. The records it holds are the original sources of that story, documenting the collective history of our nation through the actions of individuals and institutions.

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