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This bonus episode of the Strong Towns Podcast is cross-posted from our other podcast\xa0It's the Little Things.\nWant to better your community but don\u2019t know where to start? Enter It\u2019s the Little Things: a new, weekly Strong Towns podcast that gives you the wisdom and encouragement you need to take the small yet powerful actions that can make your city or town stronger.\nIt\u2019s the Little Things features Strong Towns Community Builder Jacob Moses in conversation with various guests who have taken action in their own places and in their own ways.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\xa0\n\n\n\xa0\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matter your current role in your city\u2014concerned citizen, elected official, city staff\u2014you\u2019ve likely had this thought about your local government organizations: they\u2019re slow to create meaningful change.\nYou\u2019re not wrong. Councils postpone important agenda items; city job openings remain vacant for months; and, golly, that sidewalk you were promised sure has taken a while, huh?\nWhy is that?\nBureaucracy\u2014that term you hear everyone use to explain the pace of local government organizations\u2014contributes, of course. But more so, it\u2019s the inability to create, foster, and test out ideas from everybody in the organization.\nIt\u2019s, as my guest describes it, lack of innovation.\nIn this episode, I chat with Nick Kittle. He\u2019s the former Chief Innovation Officer in government, Government Performance and Innovation Coach at Cartegraph, and author of the recently released book Sustainovation: Building Sustainable Innovation in Government, One Wildly Creative Idea at a Time.\nHaving worked in government innovation for almost 10 years, Nick knows innovation can be a buzzword that\u2019s easier said than done. However, as you\u2019ll learn in this episode, innovation is not another buzzword; instead, it\u2019s an attainable workplace culture that, when embraced, can create meaningful change in our cities, towns, and neighborhoods.\n(And, yes, make your local government organizations a little less slow.)