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Piper Companies Sustains Growth Momentum - Ranked Nationally as a 2023 Fastest Growing Company in America
Piper Companies
See publicationFor the second consecutive year, Piper Companies achieves INC. 5000 ranking and receives four accolades from Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA).
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Charis Advisory Group
𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 As 2025 comes to a close, now is the time for reflection and recalibration. Public agency leaders face increasing expectations, changing funding realities, and an urgent need to deliver results with transparency and efficiency. The most effective agencies don’t just plan — they pause to evaluate whether their vision, structure, and priorities still align with the outcomes their communities need most. These questions can help you start CY 2026 with clarity, focus, and momentum. Public agency city managers, general managers, and executive leaders should consider these questions as they close out 2025. • Do we have the right vision for our agency? Suppose your vision sounds like “the #1 provider of services,” push deeper. When former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley envisioned his city as a gateway to the Pacific Rim, that vision inspired decades of investment in transit, trade, and cultural connection — a vision that built lasting value. • What are your top strategic priorities for 2026 — and are they the same? Circumstances, resources, and community expectations evolve. When Denver shifted its 2024 priorities to focus on housing and homelessness, it was because leaders recognized that past priorities no longer fit current realities. Reassessing direction annually keeps the strategy relevant. • Does your business model assume that a new tax measure will solve your Challenges? Sustainable solutions seldom begin with new revenue. Before asking taxpayers for more money, explore your agency for structural efficiencies, process improvements, or service adjustments. Financial strength is built on discipline, transparency, and alignment — not reliance on the next measure. • Do we have clarity around our priorities and values? Many agencies struggle not because they lack a plan, but because too few people understand it. Clarity isn’t about slogans on a wall — it’s about leaders and their direct reports living and communicating the vision daily. Former San Antonio City Manager Sheryl Sculley held weekly leadership huddles to ensure every department head understood not only the “what,” but the “why.” • Are your direct reports focused on the right things? Alignment matters. When Phoenix restructured its executive team to break down silos between Transportation, Streets, and Sustainability, collaboration increased, and duplication declined. Where alignment thrives, execution follows. • Is your culture driving productivity and innovation? Culture either accelerates progress or quietly blocks it. After Hurricane Harvey, Houston’s public works teams rebuilt not just infrastructure, but a culture of resilience — empowering staff to make faster, data-informed decisions. Reflect on whether your culture in 2025 fueled agility — or stifled it. • What’s the state of your talent? What got you here won’t get you there. When San Diego established its “
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Jennifer Burger
For all the public information officers, communications directors and spokespeople out there working for public agencies - please stop stonewalling journalists by refusing to give verbal interviews and insisting your email statements are somehow good enough. You work for the public, you speak to the public. How can journalists hold public officials accountable when they aren't allowed to conduct an interview with follow-up questions? Can you imagine if all journalists everywhere decided to stop accepting email statements and just started putting "officials refused to answer questions in an interview" in their stories? Would that get you to talk or encourage your agency leaders to talk? Why don't we want your email statements? 1. They are an incomplete picture with no room for further questions. 2. They can be misinterpreted and lead to inaccuracy. 3. They often are not written by the person being attributed. 4. They are canned responses that lack the authenticity of conversation. Be real. Be honest. Be open. Don't hide behind email statements. We, journalists, promise we'll do our best not to misquote you. We record the interview on the record. We double check the transcript against the recording. We'll even share the quote with you before publication if you want to make sure you aren't being misquoted. As a coach and mentor to college journalists, I am getting really tired of having to help them respond - DAILY - to PIOs who insist on gatekeeping sources and refusing verbal interviews at PUBLIC institutions. It didn't use to be this way. Let's get back to real conversation.
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MFAD Creative Group LLC
We’re launching a short series on practical ways local firms can build agency partnerships — municipal, state and federal — using MFAD Creative Group’s proven approach. I’ll share step‑by‑step tactics like relationship mapping, targeted introductions, concise capability briefs, and teaming agreements, and explain how each tactic drives outcomes such as qualified leads and stronger procurement positioning. For example, focused stakeholder mapping can reduce outreach time by identifying the 10–20% of contacts who unlock opportunity, while capability briefs paired with a warm intro increase follow‑up meetings in our experience. I’ll illustrate these methods with real consulting work led by Dr. Robinson and show how community‑focused engagement strengthens long‑term relationships in San Antonio, TX and beyond. Read more and follow the series: https://wix.to/GdMeZNS 🔍🤝 #GovernmentContracting #AgencyPartnerships #LocalBusiness
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