Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

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Monday, September 2, 2019

Peter Drucker's "Deadly Sins in public administration"

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Management books sell like hot cakes – their stacked titles at airport and High street bookshops appealing to your inner cowboy spirit be...

Sunday, August 25, 2019

"Not with a bang, but a whimper" - part VI

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The previous post ended – as did my little book In Transit – notes on good governance – in 1999, when New Labour’s programme of “modernisi...

Thursday, August 22, 2019

a rare voice of clarity and sanity

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Let’s keep the clock in the late 1960s for a moment longer in this exploration of the possible reasons for the demonic restructuring of pub...

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Time to reclaim public services

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To coincide with this year’s Davos Conference, Oxfam has just released what has become an annual shot over the bows of the global plutocr...

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Managing Change…why have we lost interest?

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Let me try to summarise the argument of the recent posts about public services reform…… Our view of the State (and what we could expect...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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