Tiger GPS: Government and Public Service Blog

WERE WE EVER WRONG IN OUR ARROGANCE? by Travis Poteat

As I started my journey of Graduate School in the summer of 2020, Covid-19 was just beginning to wreak havoc on our country. As a firefighter, an EMS educator, and a long time healthcare worker in the Emergency Medical Services field, I admittedly was skeptical about the seriousness of this disease and the impact that […]

INCLUSION IS NOT YET A GUARANTEE by Jennifer Thackston

Innovation within the public sector, specifically governmental organizations, will slowly emerge as workplace culture shifts to a less authoritarian leadership-driven environment. In the public sector, older leadership regime protects the status quo, content with incremental changes, to preserve their status, trying to avoid major career-ending mistakes, and clinging to old skills in a rapidly shifting […]

VALUE AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE by Mark Mellott

I have been thinking a great deal recently about organizational values. They are not just words… or they should not be. How do they guide what we are? Perhaps more importantly, who do we, as an organization, wish to be? I just surpassed my first eight months as Chief Operating Officer for a large nonprofit, […]