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...

Thursday, June 7, 2018

How did administrative reform get to be so sexy?

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After some months of inertia but now back in the mountain house, I’m now able to take a fresh look at drafts which have been lying unto...

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Crafting effective public management - why so few practitioner perspectives?

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If you want to understand a subject, would you rather have one written from a theoretical standpoint – or from a practitioner’s? Most pe...

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

What If???

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As I suspected, I’m still worrying away at some of the issues raised by the series of posts about the massive changes to our public serv...

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Those who Went Before

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For the past 3 weeks I’ve been trying to compress the thoughts I (and many others!!) have had over the past few decades about administra...

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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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