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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Saturday, June 19, 2021

The strange British Love Affair with Reform

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I had no sooner posted about the need for every country to be critically reviewing its systems of government than the British government ca...

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Is Organisational Reform really all that sexy?

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The last 2 posts have tried to direct readers to posts they may have missed last year - relating to one of the three subjects which most oc...

Friday, August 23, 2019

Machiavelli warned us – being Part IV of the series on managerialism

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“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its succ...

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Is Admin Reform really Sexy?

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It’s a bit eccentric, I know, to upload a book about the experience of pubic admin reform at a time when the British government and socie...

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The Zombies take over the OECD

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Time was when I read avidly everything the OECD produced on public management…..it was so clearly-written and uplifting…..I actually delive...

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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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