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Half the United States’ Most Skilled Workers Don’t Have a Bachelor’s Degree
Think you need a college degree to be a skilled worker? Think again. With so much focus on staying competitive in global markets, jobs in the US bearing the STEM—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—moniker are in high demand. A new attempt to evaluate how 26 million US STEM workers use ... Read & React
Forget What Government Should Do—What Can It Do?
If you were trying to right a capsized business -- let's say a book company -- you wouldn't ask, in an ideal world, how much of the gross national product should be spent on books. Or how profitable the book business should be. Or whether, in the abstract, you should print only books on public ... Read & React
3 Reasons to Consider Dialing It Back a Bit
A lot of leaders end up in the roles they’re in because their Type A people who don’t settle. They have high expectations of themselves and others and give everything 100 percent. That’s a good thing until it’s no longer a good thing. In the interest of mindful leadership, I want to raise the ... Read & React
When to Tell a Leader What They Need to Hear, Not What They Want to Hear
Ask EIG is your chance to seek answers to public sector management challenges and conundrums. Submit your questions here. Under what circumstances do you tell a leader what they need to hear when everyone else is telling them what they want to hear? --Anonymous Organizations by their very nature ... Read & React
A Brief History of the US Government’s Awful Graphic Design
The revelation that major US technology companies are participating in a National Security Administration surveillance program was shocking enough. And that was before we saw the top-secret slides used by the government to describe the spying operation. They are, to put it mildly, heinously ugly… ... Read & React
Video: Guitar Playing NIH Director Nails ‘The Sequester Blues’
If you’re not familiar with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, you should be. In addition to mapping the human genome and running the largest biomedical research facility in the world, he’s also the most musically gifted federal official around. Case in point: The ... Read & React
3 Lessons From Obama on Building Relationships With Other Leaders
This weekend, President Obama will host the new president of China, Xi Jinping, for two days at a resort called Sunnyvale in Rancho Mirage, California. As reported in the New York Times and other outlets, the two leaders will spend a lot of time in relaxed and unscripted conversations with the goal ... Read & React
The Secret to a Relaxing Vacation: Send All Your Email to the Trash
Have you ever returned from vacation more stressed out than when you left? Is the reason because you came home to 10,000 email messages that managed to convey high pitched anxiety even in text (with a few exclamation points to add pressure)? Vacations should be a break from the insanity, not a ... Read & React
More than 40 Percent of Managers That Are Sent Abroad Fail
Getting a job placement overseas sounds like a dream until it’s not. The failure rate of expatriates is amazingly high, and experts blame a lack of corporate support and an abundance of family issues. Some 42% of overseas assignments are judged to be failures by senior executives in a new Right ... Read & React
When Women Don't Take Credit for Their Own Good Work
For too many women, the hardest part of being successful might be taking credit for the work that they do, especially when they work in groups. In a study recently published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers Michelle C. Haynes and Madeline E. Heilman conducted a series ... Read & React
