Hierarchies and Collaboration
It wasn’t long into my experience delivering training classes to city employees that I noticed the impact of hierarchies on our group...
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What Makes You a Data Leader?
We talk often about being data driven and I don't think there's anyone who sincerely desires to completely ignore all data that comes...
Putting a Data Leader in Their Place
I've been interested a lot recently in what it means to be a data leader. I had the opportunity this week to have a wonderful class with...
Leadership is About Influence
Listening this morning to Janice Marturano speak with Sharon Salzberg on her Metta Hour podcast, she articulated something beautiful...
Lessons from COVID-19: The Deficit of Trust
In 2013, I watched as people reacted to the release of classified documents by Edward Snowden. As someone with experience in the...
Predictive Analytics at the VA: The Dangers of the Black Box in the Public Sector
As a US military veteran and patient of the Veteran's Administration, I'm glad to see the VA using all the tools at their disposal to...
Learning to Ask the Right Question: The Beginning of Good Analysis
Data analysis doesn't begin with the data but with the question to be answered.
Teaching GIS to Public Sector Employees
When I took my first (and only) GIS class about 15 years ago, the class was structured around a basic pattern: 1. Give us a list of steps...
Innovation and Change, Old and New
Two items came into my inbox this morning that accurately reflected what I see is the two faces of innovation in the public sector. The...
Innovation is an Action, Not a Thing
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