Hunger

Sorry for the light blogging this morning; I'm at Government Executive's Excellence in Government conference, moderating a panel and attending some others. But I wanted to say how struck I was by the energy and urgency that the audience at my panel brought to their questions. We were discussing the new administration's evolving human capital policy, and people wanted to know how their lives would be affected. Is the Office of Personnel Management going to make it easier to review the steps in my hiring process? Does the Obama administration care about human capital? Will things get better? There's clearly an intense hunger to move forward quickly with a wide range of human capital reforms. This is not a theoretical moment when change is possible--folks are starving for it. I don't know how best to harness or channel that energy, but it's a powerful force. Folks have a lot of ideas. They need places to send them and the resources implement them.