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”.

Sunday, May 26, 2019

The virus affecting our systems

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One of the many dystopian themes which figure in contemporary novels and films is that of the pandemic - of a new virus being let loose in ...

Monday, May 20, 2019

Real Control

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I have always been a fan of companies which are managed by those who work in them. In the late 1970, I helped start up a project called the...

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Let the Fingers Do the Talking

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One of the reasons why this blog continues is that the physical process of writing words – whether on a keyboard or on the pages of a note...

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Friday, May 17, 2019

Workforce Management – real dignity

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You will not generally find me extolling books with titles which refer to “reinvention” – we all had our fingers burned in the 1980s and 19...

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Wresting the political from the technocrats

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The blog’s masthead carries some quotations which hopefully give readers a sense of the sort of material which will hit them (on the to...

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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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