Balancing Your State

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

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...

What’s your job?

It’s one of those simple questions that has a simple answer.  People  can often recite their job description or simply give you a copy to save time.  Depending on the person, the question “what’s your job” can illicit a variety...

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...
The Ever Expanding Organization

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...