Balancing Your State
When state governments get into trouble the news stories start talking about balancing the state budget. It usually gets reduced to simple math of cutting personnel and services to be better in line with revenue coming into the state. Sounds simple! ...
Celebrating mediocrity
This week I had a couple of wins that caught people’s attention. There was a flurry of “Whoo Hoo” type emails among the management but I’m left thinking that all I did was got people to do their jobs. Too often I think we are celebrating...Excuse Me Something is Wrong
Do you see the problem? We’ve all seen playing cards. They have done experiments showing people a group of cards and have them repeat back what they have seen. Most people get all the cards right. They just don’t recognize that the cards...
Please Charge the Batteries
It sounds like a simple request – please charge the batteries. How could someone possibly get that wrong. Or so I thought. How could there be miscommunication over something this obvious? The other day we were at an all day sporting event and...
The Ever Expanding Organization
Every once and a while you will see something that makes no sense but everyone involved treats it as status quo and goes about their business. There are usually a series of work arounds in place because someone didn’t fix the problem that caused the...
