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Welcome to GovernmentChangeAgents.com. The articles are listed below in chronological order. Click on the date to see the post.
April 4, 2006
Change Agents and Leadership -- Who Will Follow?: Change agents and leadership go hand in hand. This notion was explored many times in the change agent paper. However, the title of a new book by Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones...
April 5, 2006
Innovation On a Shoe String Budget: Last month I read an amazing article published in CSOonline entitled "Sharp Object Lessons". It was an informative story about how Boston’s Logan International Airport has been transformed...
April 7, 2006
British Lessons for Workforce Development: One of the six key management practices discussed in the change agent paper is uncovering the right talent. Change is ineffective without the ability to find talented people and align them around...
April 10, 2006
Change Agents and the Process of Change: The change agent paper talks not only about how to identify a change agent through their role, personality and style of leadership, but also how those change agents use thought leadership to change...
April 12, 2006
Newt Gingrich on Leadership: Newt Gingrich’s name was brought up many times during the change agent study for his work as Speaker of the House in the 1990s. We took at run at interviewing him for the change agent paper, but unfortunately...
April 14, 2006
The Clinger-Cohen Act, and How CIOs Influence Change: In 1996, Congress passed the Clinger-Cohen Act, also known as The Information Technology Management Reform Act. This bill provides direction to government agencies in how they manage...
April 19, 2006
The Naked Chef as a Change Agent?: Last Sunday night, 60 Minutes had an excellent profile of Jamie Oliver, also known as The Naked Chef. During the intro of the show, he was asked, "If you've become a household name as a celebrity chef on TV...
April 21, 2006
Openness and Innovation in Digital Standards: The value of "openness" has increasingly become a catalyst for change, transformation and innovation. An interesting article on openness discusses the paper, Open Standards, Open Source, and Open...
April 24, 2006
How to Become a Change Agent- In an Easy-to-Use Website: If you Google the phrase "Government Leadership" and click on the second link, you will stumble upon GovermentLeaders.org, one of the best sources of free information about leadership...
April 26, 2006
Change Agents Reinventing 911 Emergency Systems: A reader recently sent us an article about how enhancements to a 911 emergency system can provide a ray of hope in times of danger, and drastically improve the pace and effectiveness of the...
April 28, 2006
Governmentchangeagents.com In The News: Last Monday, the change agent white paper and this blog received some really great publicity. Government Leader Magazine, a publication that concentrates on leadership in the public sector, interviewed Daniel Forrester...