Steve Ressler

The Dinner Party Analogy
Have you ever thrown a dinner party? It seems easy, right? Buy some food, invite some people, and it will be a huge success.
But it never is. You need to send invites early, find out if people are allergic to anything, follow-up individuals to remind people to come, stage the conversation once [...]

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The Wisdom From Outside
It’s always interesting to see how persuasion occurs. How do you convince someone of something they don’t believe in currently?
I saw this growing up. I’d often have discussions with friends or family and I would try to make a point. “Really, Garth Brooks is the biggest selling artist of the 90s”
Before Wikipedia, [...]

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Explaining What You Do
Have you ever been out in public and people ask “what do you do?”
Of course you have. It’s one of the standard questions when meeting someone new.
Being a public servant it is always funny to answer that question. When growing up, my father worked for the IRS. So when people asked what [...]

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The H1N1 Rapper
By now you may have seen the winning entry for the HHS H1N1 Public Service Announcement Contest.
It’s a doctor who is a rapper who raps about how to prevent H1N1.
Personally, I find it hilariously awesome. Who knew that would be the winning entry? Who knew we had a rapping doctor?
I think the H1N1 [...]

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The Life of a Flyer
So I spend a lot of times on airplanes. Primarily this USAirways route from Tampa to DCA.
It’s pretty good – on-time, free Coke Zero, and it is direct.
Every flyer has a routine. Some do work, some read a Kindle, some have magazines.
Lately, I’ve been using it as a brainstorm time. My [...]

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The Art of Dressing
I’ve had a range of dress codes in my public service career. My first internship at Social Security Administration it was pretty much jeans and polos. And the next gig at Education was more khakis and polos. Then I moved to DHS and it was suit and tie, then dress shirt and [...]

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