Friday, December 11, 2009

my list of useful comparative papers on public management reform

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Iain MacWhirter is one of the links I recommend in the sidebar – and yesterday’s post on the latest phase of the banker’s scam in the UK ...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

remembrance

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Today was my father's birthday - he would have been 102 - the same age my mum reached! My October 16th posting - "fathers" ...

a day's reading

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I vowed to do a blog each day – partly to encourage the tiny readership I have but also because it is an important discipline – writing is m...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

are human resources people?

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I’ve mentioned already the inimitable, little bombshell called Scottish Review which pops 2-3 times a week into my electronic letterbox. It’...
Saturday, December 5, 2009

back in mountains

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Romania is an amazing country - with many beautiful places even if the wine, paintings and hospitality are not as impressive as its neighbou...
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...