New Report Reveals Critical Gaps in Local Government Leadership

New Report Reveals Critical Gaps in Local Government Leadership

Government Leadership Solutions Releases Executive Summary and Full Report of the 2025 State of Local Government Leadership Pipeline Study

Invest in leaders, not just skills

Chief learning officers are familiar with this reality: Billions of dollars are spent annually training people on technical skills, yet our performance still lags. As a scholar practitioner, my doctoral research focused on the lived experiences of firefighters, and I argue that it offers a transcendent warning: If you teach people to “do” but not to “think,” you set them — and your organization — up for failure. There is no other profession anal…