Your father’s company may have gifted him with a gold watch at his retirement party. The startup you daughter works at may offer employees snacks and access to a ping pong table. Each generation of managers tries new tactics to keep employees engaged and efficient.Researchers have recently discovered that, although worthwhile, it isn’t work perks ... READ MORE+

As a Building and Construction professional, you know the critical importance of proper support. You wouldn’t (and Code Enforcement would never allow you to) build a support beam from subpar or outdated material, so why are you settling for a management system that relies on paper documents or 1980s era software to uphold daily operations? ... READ MORE+

We’ve written extensively about the importance of aggregating and tracking data, but what good is all that information if you and other members of your administration don’t optimize it? The first step towards data optimization is data literacy—a skill that a variety of industries place an increasingly high premium on. Indeed, Gartner foresees 80% ... READ MORE+

With the recent rerelease of Die Hard, news of a Baby-Sitters Club reboot coming to Netflix and the triumphant return of hair barrettes, 1980s nostalgia is at fever pitch.While '80s films, books and looks can still be enjoyed in the present-day, there’s a reason you don’t see people walking around with Gordon Gekko size cellphones. 1980s ... READ MORE+

It’s been touted as a necessity, brushed-off as a buzzword, compared to “a cult” and dismissed as a “Millennial obsession”. Whatever your feelings on the wellness movement, there’s no denying that wellness and its cousins, self-care and self-help, comprise a billion dollar market that industries from tech to beauty are trying to infiltrate. ... READ MORE+

Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, which premiered on MTV earlier this month,  is the latest in a recent crop of reality television shows focused on the managaement of a business (in this case, Lohan’s newly opened nightclub in Mykonos, Greece). Billed as the actress’ comeback, Beach Club, is MTV’s answer to Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules, which follows the ... READ MORE+

Breaking-up is hard to do, but not as hard as staying in a relationship that is no longer serving you. If you’re a Business Administrator on the fence about ending things with your local government’s current management software provider, this piece may give you just the push you need to leave them once and for all.   READ MORE+

Perhaps the tryptophan in the Thanksgiving turkey caused you to sleep through Black Friday. Maybe your WiFi signal was not cooperating on Cyber Monday. Whatever the case, the holidays season is upon us and you don’t have a gift for your coworkers. Sure, you could always bring them a pot of your famous chili, but we all know how badly that ended ... READ MORE+

Last week, we told you what kind of districts purchase GovPilot. This time, we are telling you how they do it. READ MORE+

GovPilot clients, Raleigh, North Carolina and Trenton and Union Township, New Jersey, are quickly becoming fixtures on lists ranking districts that leverage the latest innovations to offer residents a high quality of life (see Money magazine’s 2018 list of the 50 Best Places to Live in America and CompTIA’s recent index of the top 20 “tech ... READ MORE+