Years ago I learned that it’s important to have guidelines for your professional life. I developed mine after I was in my thirties. I had already achieved many of the goals I laid out for myself and was trying to figure out what next. I’d recently left the Department of...
This week's Washington Report! To sign up for the direct email, click here. Debt Ceiling ... CBO Report and a Headline From the Report You Might Have Missed ... Pentagon “Wish List” ... Captain Kirk and Intergalactic Theology ... and more of the week’s highlights. The Olympics, of course,...
Your move, Walgreens. Today CVS announced it would stop selling tobacco products, effective in October. That means a $2 billion drop in revenue – but that’s only about 1.6 percent of their total revenue. The CVS brand is bigger than just your neighborhood drugstore. They’re part of a larger healthcare...
This week's Washington Report! To sign up for the direct email, click here. After 2” of snow shut down Atlanta, I’m reminded that snowstorm preparedness (or lack of it) and how elected officials respond can make or break political careers. Once again, former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill...
A lot is written in the Public Relations world about the importance of apologies. I couldn’t agree more. I’ve even blogged about it here and here. I hate the non-apology apology and I hate the passive voice. What’s starting to grate on me is the “I’m sorry I was a...
The world of government contracting is confusing. But also really simple. I gave a talk recently about government contracting and sales. In my remarks I noted that it’s simultaneously extraordinarily simple and brutally difficult, especially in the environment of the past couple of years. There are really only three very...
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