Saturday, November 14, 2009

organisational narcissism

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One of the issues which has puzzled me is the enormous gap between the rhetoric of management books and the organisational reality experienc...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

the scandinavian contribution

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The Scandinavian contribution to public administration - at both a practical and theoretical level - is under-estimated. Sweden, for exam...
Friday, November 6, 2009

making sense of public sector reform

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A decade ago, I had a few months to prepare for a major new assignment in central Asia – which turned into a 7 year spell in that part of th...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

some recent material on UK reform

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In June, the UK Parliament's Select Committee on Public Administration published an interesting report on Good Government - complete w...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

reinventing public administration

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Jules Feiffer In my other blog, I suggested some months back that the time was overdue for a reappraisal of public administration - and of w...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

modern satire

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I made a recent comment about how powerful an educational tool satire can be. The comment arose from my reading of Democratic Audit’s recent...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

miscellaneous

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A busy 2 days – Friday was the day I was closing the mountain house for the winter. During the night I noticed what I thought was fog outsid...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

managerialism as ideology

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I asked why we had so easily forgotten the caution against hubris in the work of Karl Popper, James Scott etc Bit of a naive question! One o...