The talents of leaders who consistently achieve targeted results include vision, decisiveness, and strategic execution. Yet in the dramatically changing world of work, leaders must not only possess the foundational skills of leadership, they must also adopt new beliefs about leading and develop new ...
Civic engagement has many elements, but in its most basic sense, it fosters the right of the people or the citizenry to directly participate in the decision making process of the institutions that represent and affect them. In theory, by actively listening to its citizenry, government can become clo...
In February, an appointed panel officially declared the City of Detroit in a state of "financial emergency." Michigan Governor Rick Snyder tasked a six-member Financial Review Team in December to examine the city's finances. They emphasized in their report that Detroit has not had a posit...
In the recent UK local elections that took place on May 2nd, the United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) won a quarter of all votes. UKIP's success has turned the traditional picture of British politics on its head. The era of the two-party binary seems to have reached a definite end. Nigel Farage, ...
Ten years ago I began working in the mobile technology field. It was the start of two years of work which would lead to the development of an innovative conservation information service - wildlive! - and the release of one of the earliest reports on the potential of mobile technology for conservatio...