Coach or mentor: Which one do you need?
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Have you ever faced a tough work situation where you thought, “I wish I had someone to talk this through...
Policy in a POD
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Over the past two years, Alberta’s government has put into place a new approach for internal government discourse to support...
Saskatchewan public servants receive award for excellence
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The government of Saskatchewan gave the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Public Service last week to six teams and...
Weekly Roundup – September 20th
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Is it Friday already? We’ve had a lot of content this week. If you’ve missed any of it, you can...
Time Isn’t Always On Our Side
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An article in this week’s Harvard Business Review touts the importance of taking time to solve a problem. The authors...
Paradigm shift: The CIO as a strategic business enabler
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This is the best of times for the CIO community. Our traditional role is evolving from technical specialist to digital...
Advancing the state of open government
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The U.S. State Department, of all departments, has an Open Government Plan. The report notes, and it is no secret,...
CPSQA Meeting: Why You Need an Execution Plan
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Today’s Canadian Public Sector Quality Association (CPSQA) meeting in Ottawa featured a workshop by Craig Szelestowski, president of Lean Agility,...
The reviews are in: Public sector management reform
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Decades of reform in developing countries point to four enduring dilemmas: Reforms focus on changing rules and behaviour by design...
Institutional entrepreneur: The new public servant
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Dramatic transformations to historically stable institutions are creating exciting opportunities to study the processes of institutional change. The reverberations of...