Who are the probationary workers that were fired? Why? And why are they being hired back? I have been laid-off only once in my professional career. It was no surprise. I was a grain trader for a large Midwest cooperative and they had decided to close down the grain division. So I saw this was…
Tag: Lessons Learned
Diagnosing DOGE: Bullet Points
What is a retired federal employee’s take on the request from DOGE to submit five bullet points? The Department on Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently stirred up considerable controversy when it used the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send e-mails to all government employees demanding that they list five things they accomplished during the week….
The Professional Ethic
What are the transcendent values that compose the “professional ethic?”
Change Management
If anything strings together my career it is observing how people, including myself, respond to change.