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You Need Only ‘One Minute’ to Get Ahead
By Camille Tuutti at 10 March, 2010, 3:34 pm
If there ever was an international classic in business and management books, “The One Minute Manager” (William Morrow) by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson would be it. Published in 1982 and hailed as a No. 1 bestselling phenomenon, the book has taught millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide how to [...]
Read More >>Executive Spotlight: MJ Pizzella of Google
By John Adams at 9 March, 2010, 12:03 pm
GovCon Executive recently had the chance to sit down with MJ Pizzella, senior business development executive at Google. Pizzella discussed the topic of switching from the public to the private sector and what tools she brings to her role at the Internet giant. She also gave an insider’s perspective on Google’s operations, as well as [...]
Read More >>Moving Towards Smart Power
By Jim Garrettson at 9 March, 2010, 11:31 am
With the recent operations undertaken by the U.S. in Afghanistan and previously in Iraq, military personnel, politicians and academics have extensively debated the right approach to waging a counterinsurgency campaign. In late 2009, President Obama announced that there would be a 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan and back in 2007 President Bush launched a troop [...]
Read More >>Having Successful ‘Crucial Conversations’
By Camille Tuutti at 8 March, 2010, 5:10 pm
When the stakes are high and emotions run wild, it can be near-impossible to keep interpersonal exchanges on a professional level. “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High” (McGraw-Hill) by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler offers a seven-point strategy that will make anyone achieve his or her goals in [...]
Read More >>Touch for Health
By John Mamana at 16 February, 2010, 2:34 pm
A big bear hug. A warm caress. From birth to old age - touch is our first sense to develop and the last to diminish. The touch of another human is so critical to our development, health and emotional well being that therapist and author Virginia Satir declared, “human beings need four hugs a day [...]
Read More >>A Look at Good News with an Eye on the Future
By Christine Ferguson at 7 January, 2010, 1:12 pm
A New Year always presents an opportunity to look back and look ahead and the crucial issues we have faced and will meet head on in the coming months.
Amid last month’s flurry of debate and voting on health care reform legislation, there was a bit of good news that came out of the Department of [...]
Stretch Your Life
By John Mamana at 6 January, 2010, 2:52 pm
Executives who spend long days sitting, then evenings sleeping on lumpy hotel beds and not working out regularly suffer from stiff necks, sore muscles and headaches. Even with a regular fitness program, it isn’t unusual to hear complaints of low back pain or pulled muscles. That’s because the most underestimated component [...]
Read More >>Phood- your pH and the food you eat
By John Mamana at 28 December, 2009, 11:33 am
Eating well can mean different things to different people. Some executives swear by a low carb diet to lose weight, while others follow the Mediterranean diet to keep energized. And for executives trying to stay alert after long lunches, light foods such as salads and seafood are a staple. While all good choices - to [...]
Read More >>Either health care bill will mean big IT changes
By Christine Ferguson at 23 December, 2009, 11:50 am
As reaction to the Senate’s health care bill reverberates, we have yet to fully understand how any final legislation will affect individuals, institutions and, very notably, state governments.
Leaders in the House and Senate have said that they will have a final bill for the President to sign by the end of January. If they succeed, [...]
Decentralized system of renewables is possible
By Kevin Matthews at 21 December, 2009, 1:25 pm
States have a lot more power than they realize.
A recent report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance found that most states could meet their demand for electricity with renewable energy sources inside their own borders. The report, called Energy Self-Reliant States, examined the commercial potential for wind, rooftop solar, geothermal and small-scale hydro projects, according [...]
