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Speak for Yourself There is a fine line between promoting yourself and bragging. Knowing where that line is can make the difference between career success and f...

Federal News Network Staff

December 8, 2008 7:57 pm

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Speak for Yourself

There is a fine line between promoting yourself and bragging. Knowing where that line is can make the difference between career success and failure. Two experts with C-level Federal experience talked to me about self-promoting to build your career: Vincette Goerl, former Chief Financial Officer at the US Forest Service (now Managing Director at CGI Federal) and Ed Meagher, former Deputy Chief Information Officer at Interior and Chief Technology Officer at VA (now Director of Health Care Strategic Initiatives at SRA International).

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Sorting Out the Leadership Diagram at the Pentagon

The head man is staying, but his deputies are leaving. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is losing a lot of his top leadership team with the change in administrations. Dr. Dan Goure was a member of the transition team at Defense in 2001, and he’s now Vice President of the Lexington Institute. He talked with me about the precarious balance that Secretary Gates will have find.

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Secretary Gates’s news conference, referenced in the interview with Dr. Goure:

A New Terrorist Generation

In a follow-up from last week’s discussion about the Federal response to the Mumbai attacks, National Security Correspondent JJ Green talks about the new generation of terrorists: their use of technology, their seemingly random attacks, and other harrowing developments.

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