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March 2006
Welcome to GovernmentChangeAgents.com. The articles are listed below in chronological order. Click on the date to see the post.
March 1, 2006
Interview with Mr. Robert Love, Director of DoD Business Transformation Agency Warfighter Support Office - Part 3 of 3: In the last part of the interview, Mr. Love, Director of Warfighter Support Office, Business Transformation Agency, discusses...
March 3, 2006
Los Angeles Police Department: Safety in Numbers: Another person interviewed for the change agent paper was Paul O’Connell. As a former NYC police officer, attorney, and now a Professor and...
March 6, 2006
An Email Exchange with Paul O’Connell: Building from the recent post on the Compstat system in Los Angeles, we had an email exchange with one of the change agents from the paper, Paul O'Connell...
March 7, 2006
"Who has time for strategy when 'execution' is all that really matters?": Dateline Amsterdam, Netherlands. Travel this week for client work brings me to Amsterdam. Not a city I would run back to...
March 8, 2006
A Change Agent Enters the Blogosphere - Tim Berners-Lee: 2006 should be a great year for the ongoing evolution of blogging. A fascinating new addition (it feels strange saying that) to the blogosphere...
March 10, 2006
Driving Behavior Through Programs like Telecommuting : One of the questions we posed to change agents in the War on Terror is: How do they drive behavior in federal bureaucracies? In the private sector...
March 13, 2006
Cell phones as Change Agents and the dawn of "Citizen Journalism" : Great short article from Fortune magazine that reviews topics that will be discussed at their Brainstorm 2006 conference. One topic that...
March 15, 2006
Change Agents and Mentors: A Private Sector Viewpoint: I was surprised how many of the change agents we interviewed for the paper knew each other through many years of public service. Not surprisingly...
March 17, 2006
Of Time Management, Coffee and Change Agents: For change agents, time management is a critical skill. Every senior executive was pressed for time in sharing their stories during the creation of the change...
March 20, 2006
A Change Agent Emerges in LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: An article from the Los Angeles Daily News, "Mayor says LAUDS in crisis," reveals a change agent in the making. By arguing for the need for change...
March 22, 2006
A Change Agent for President?: An article by Michelle Grattan in last month’s Australian online periodical, "The Age," entitled "Following Howard's way to victory," offers an interesting summary of John Howard’s...
March 23, 2006
GovExec.com Article: Parting Wisdom: Brian Friel from Government Executive Magazine posed some questions to me around Art Cebrowski's legacy. He had read the change agent paper and thought Cebrowski's advice...
March 24, 2006
Change Agents and Innovation: The concept of innovation came up many times in our discussions during the creation of the change agent paper. This blog will look closely at the concept of "innovation in government...
March 27, 2006
Government Innovation: Of Deadbeat Dads and Moose Hunting?: Neat article from recent USA Today speaks to state level innovation in regards to child support. Armed with better technology, states are finding...
March 29, 2006
Character Centered Leadership: What the Military Teaches Future Leaders of America: In the white paper, change agents tell us that a major key to their success is uncovering the right talent. Forming the best possible...
March 31, 2006
Interview with Iain Dale: A British View of Change Agents and Government: A great friend of mine, and well known political commentator has worked in and around the UK government since he was in college. Iain Dale is a...