Ten thoughts from 10 years in the Public Sector; #1 Ideas…
…it is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory - W Edwards Deming The public sector seems to like the idea of ideas but not the ideas themselves. The unquestionable commercial reality of Demings statement above has not reached many parts… Read More ›
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Ten thoughts from 10 years in the Public Sector; #2 Spin…
…waste and incompetence are understandable, but the failure to learn is really harming us all. In his brilliant book Flat Earth News, the author Nick Davies explains that the quality of our press is poor because they don’t have the… Read More ›
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Ten thoughts from 10 years in the Public Sector; #3 Outputs…
…chasing the target and missing the point; its the most logical thing to do in the Public Sector. I sat across the desk from the Chief Exec of the Quango I worked for, I explained that I’d become very concerned about the… Read More ›
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Ten thoughts from 10 years in the Public Sector; #4 Values…
…stop promising me Marilyn and giving me Homer Simpson. I used to work with a guy who said that when your values are clear your decisions are easy. I think he borrowed this phrase from Roy Disney. When I first heard him… Read More ›
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Ten thoughts from 10 years in the Public Sector; #5 Reality Check…
…can a man who is warm understand a man who is freezing? Alexander Solzhenitsyn Are we being fair and realistic to expect that someone who has never worked in the private sector and is steeped in decades of public sector… Read More ›
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Think different; a classic Apple ad
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The best job in the world…probably
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Burning platforms, is your arse on fire?
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