July 2006
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Welcome to GovernmentChangeAgents.com. The articles are listed below in chronological order. Click on the date to see the post.
July 3, 2006
The Morning Meeting - A Tool for Change Agents: In a previous GCA posting, we wrote about the change agent George Naccara, who helped to transform Logan International airport into one of the safest in the country. Mr. Naccara found that one way...
July 6, 2006
Podcast Interview with Colonel Bob Stephan - Part 1: GCA.com is pleased to present the first part of our Podcast with Colonel Bob Stephan the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, at the Department of Homeland Security. When Governor Tom...
July 10, 2006
Podcast Interview with Colonel Bob Stephan - Part 2: Here is the conclusion to our interview with Colonel Bob Stephan from DHS. We would like to thank Colonel Stephan for giving us time for this interview and for his continued involvement with GCA.com...
July 12, 2006
Government Change Agents.com in the News: A few months back, I spoke with John Pulley, a free lance writer for Government Executive Magazine. That interview has given rise to a two page spread in this month's edition of the magazine which...
July 12, 2006
The Public Service Academy - A Breeding Ground for the Change Agents of Generation Y: If you do much reading about change agents in the government, it would be easy to conclude that those deemed most pivotal are the seasoned and experienced veterans of government - typically members...
July 14, 2006
Bill Gates challenges Gen Y - Can the Government do the same?: Following on a recent posting, we wanted to take a look at a commercial example of how Microsoft is engaging with Generation Y to have an impact. It seems that Microsoft sees Generation Y as change agents...
July 17, 2006
Obstacles to Innovation: By the early fall of 1989, Mother Theresa had had enough. Seeking to convert two burned-out buildings into temporary housing for 64 homeless men, she had come to New York two years earlier armed only with a plan, the...
July 18, 2006
Comments from Readers: A few days ago, we put up a posting about how a government-funded and run "service academy" might serve as potential breeding ground for Generation Y change agents. Since then, we have received some interesting comments...
July 21, 2006
Citizen Service: In 1993, President Clinton declared that "public officials must embark upon a revolution within the Federal Government to change the way it does business." By establishing a set of Customer Service Standards for all executive...
July 24, 2006
Pod casting - Communications Tool Change Agents Must Embrace: As part of our efforts to bring a fresh point of view on leadership, change and being a change agent in the government, we recently started pod-casting. As with blogging , podcasting is easy to do and very effective in reaching audiences...
July 26, 2006
Winning the Hearts and Minds- a Change Agent Walking Point: A few weeks ago I was introduced to an amazing individual. I attended a dinnner event at the Army Navy club in Washington DC in which Lieutenant General David Petraeus was speaking. He was accompanied by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist...
July 31, 2006
"Change Agents" in the News: A couple of notable figures caught the attention of the GCA.com staff this week by publicly discussing our favorite subject - change agents - in the context of two new initiatives:...