Expertise from an Expert

Leon Panetta has been Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, White House Chief of Staff, and a member of the Iraq Study Group. He is, in addition to his responsibilities at the Panetta Institute, a co-chair of the Council on Base Support and Retention, appointed by California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger. So he is uniquely qualified to talk to me about Federal budget priorities in the next administration.

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Go Climb That (Leadership) Mountain

There are leadership lessons for you to learn from mountain climbers. Don Schmincke, one of the co-authors of “High Altitude Leadership: What the World’s Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success,” and head of the SAGA Leadership Institute, taught us about them.

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Transition Threats

Transitions of power in the United States and other countries have been challenged from time to time by outside forces hoping to destabilize those countries, or at least cause a little chaos. Mackenzie Eaglen, Senior Policy Analyst for National Security at The Heritage Foundation, talked about how the military is planning for the transition, and the efforts they’re making to provide some stability between November 5th and January 20th, no matter who’s elected.

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Is This Thing On?

Telecom companies are becoming some of the biggest–and most critical–players in the contracting world. Information sharing, network security, and many other high-profile areas are falling under their purveys. Susan Zeleniak, group president of Verizon Federal, talked Networx, Trusted Internet Connection, contracting trends, and much more from the intersection of the telecom world and the Federal government.

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