With Labor Day ahead of us and many folks heading out of town, I thought it would be the perfect time to share the leadership books recommended by some of the federal leaders I've recently interviewed

Nextgov reported on Wednesday that NASA is launching a program to help those highly skilled - and highly paid - employees working on the soon-to-be-shuttered space shuttle program in Florida's "spa

Nextgov has written before about how cloud computing means fewer jobs, but that isn't talked about much in the federal government.

I am a big fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes and with the pre-season college football rankings just released - and OSU ranked number two in the nation - my hopes for the season are sky-high.

This week the Center for Government Leadership held a seminar on how to motivate and lead people.

Government Executive posted on Tuesday the second of a four-part series on telework.

Dice.com has an interesting article about how the coming retirement wave of 76 million baby boomers over

Every Friday during the summer, my wife and I have a massive pizza party with our neighbors - it's as much for the adults as for the kids.

Thank you for your very thoughtful - and in one case incredibly funny - emails on repairing relationships at work.

The federal government continues to struggle with a number of dysfunctional policies and practices that hamper its ability to recruit and retain a high-quality workforce, according to a new

The debate over whether federal employees are paid significantly higher than their private sector counterparts has made headlines recently.

Last week, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater had a very bad day at work when - after a conflict with a passenger - he activated the emergency evacuation chute, grabbed two beers, slid down the ru

Thank you for all of your great comments and questions this week on topics ranging from managing your "young guns" to dealing with indecisive managers.

The Homeland Security Department has stood up a special task force to evaluate the needs within the federal and private sector cybersecurity workforce.

Another article in USA Today again claims that federal pay is significantly higher than private se

A Republic senator late last week introduced a bill that would reduce and limit the number of civilian federal workers to February 2009 levels.

Lately, I've noticed a lot more young professionals with federal agency badges commuting to and from work. It made me wonder: Am I just getting older or is there something to this trend?

Thank you for all of your great comments and questions this week on topics ranging from being a young government leader to dealing with micro-managing supervisors and delegating tasks effectively.

The government must institute some type of performance-based pay system in order to retain the expertise critical to combating cyber threats, an expert on cybersecurity human capital said Thursday.

Martha Johnson is the administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA.) In this role, Johnson oversees an agency of 13,000 people and manages more than 11 percent of the government's total p

Last week, I blogged about the importance of ensuring diversity in the federal information technology workforce, par

A Senate panel on Thursday approved a bill granting civilian federal employees a 2011 pay raise of 1.4 percent.

In following up to Thursday's post, Federal Times

The Office of Personnel Management is considering ending its centralized hiring register program due to a lack of interest among federal agencies.

A Senate panel on Thursday passed legislation that would expand grants to students who pursue cybersecurity careers and create a public-private center for cybersecurity innovation.