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By Catherine Iste
 Who gets everything right on the first try? If we are honest about it, many of our successes are built on a pile of mistakes and failures. And although failure has made its way into acceptable business vernacular — fail fast, fail often! — we are not naturally inclined to discuss our mistakes. So, whether it's blowing a big presentation, losing our cool at a meeting or making mistakes on our work, here is the overachiever's guide to working through those inevitable, pesky missteps.
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Route Fifty
A little after midnight on November 28, 2014, hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters filled the streets of downtown Chicago. The demonstration was one of many that erupted in cities nationwide soon after a Missouri grand jury failed to indict a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer for the shooting death of Michael Brown that August. As the protesters marched, a police vehicle crept behind them.
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Campus Safety
A definition of terrorism is not as easy to come by as you may think. Defining terrorism can be as difficult as trying to understand it because there is no universally accepted definition.
Some cities have ordinances that define terroristic acts, states have statutes and various agencies of the federal government define terrorism differently.
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Emergency Management
Resilience is a word that has been tossed around a lot in recent years. It is the newest term to enter the emergency management lexicon and you find it across the spectrum of thinking about personal resilience, organizational resilience and spiritual resilience. All of the above have this sense of being able to avoid a crushing blow, and being able to weather the storms of life or business.
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Governing
You would be forgiven for thinking the building on the north side of San Antonio is a liberal arts college, or maybe a live/work space for artists. The walls are hung with paintings, there are spaces for dancing and there’s a community garden where farm-to-table foods are grown. But in fact it’s the North Education Center, one of San Antonio’s four new full-day pre-kindergarten facilities.
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Nextgov
It’s been more than two years since Facebook introduced “safety check,” a tool that lets users mark themselves as “safe” after a natural disaster or other crisis. For its next act of corporate do-goodery, the social network is building that feature out with real-world logistical support.
Facebook today launched “community help,” a subset of safety check that will help users find, receive and offer help in the event of a crisis. Help, in this case, has a distinctly practical meaning: food, water, transportation, housing.
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Government Technology
Traditionally, even tech-savvy governors have left specific mentions of IT-centric initiatives out of their annual addresses to the legislatures and citizens of their state. But over the past few years, that tide has shifted. Technology has increasingly snared a larger percentage of the limelight, indicative of its growing prominence in policy conversations.
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USA Today
Tornadoes ripped through southern Louisiana on Tuesday, leaving only splintered wood where houses once stood and causing dozens of minor injuries as a violent weather system barreled across the South.
There were no immediate reports of deaths after four tornadoes hit the region, leaving 10,000 homes without power and prompting Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to declare a state of emergency. Dozens of homes, cars and businesses were damaged.
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Government Executive
The federal hiring freeze is on, and federal human resources leaders are sifting through the details to determine how it applies to their agency. But in terms of a long-term personnel strategy, many of these details are only somewhat important.
The real story is how the freeze and other plans imposed by President Donald Trump will impact agency operations now and in the future. Performance management is more important than ever for federal Human Resources leaders. Here’s why.
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