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”.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Words and metaphors

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Thanks to Maria Popova of Brain Pickings , I found myself this morning enjoying the company of dead men… specifically George Orwell and An...

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Self-Management - an idea whose time has come?

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The language of these books and articles about public management is utterly soul-destroying! The series of posts I’ve just done required m...

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Plain text; and the 21st Century Public Manager

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Readers will have noticed my growing impatience with the academic output about public services in the past 30-40 years. About the only w...

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...

Monday, October 9, 2017

Why have we allowed academics to blind-side us all?? The state of the State - part 6

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This is the last part of my tabular presentation of what the commentariat have been saying in the past 50 years about the management and d...

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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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