For local government organizations, compensation costs are still a significant portion of overall costs and for that reason, are constantly under public scrutiny.

Just like Troy and the Trojan Horse, sometimes our biggest governance threats come from inside our own organizations.

According to the Pew Research Center, millennials now outnumber baby boomers in the workplace 76 million to 75 million, and will make up 75% of the workforce by 2025.

I want to share what I learned while attending the UK's local government executives symposium sponsored by the Local Government Chronicle in October 2015.

The main topic of the SOLACE Annual Summit was devolution or the transfer of municipal services from national to local control.