Balanced view of public service future
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In the Nineteenth Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada, Wayne Wouters, Clerk of the...
Understanding the Big Society
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The Big Society agenda has significant implications for the delivery of government services, both in the U.K. and elsewhere. With...
Seven steps to safer air travel
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Air travel can be stressful and harmful. While the destination may be enjoyable, the trip often isn't.
A reform blueprint
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How can government become more efficient? The Drummond Report offers up an interesting and comprehensive blueprint.
Reducing employees’ environmental footprint
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For decades, the availability of cheap energy for transportation and manufacturing encouraged the creation of a throwaway culture: make something...
Cold reality, but brighter prospects
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Wayne Wouters has got the perfect balance between telling it like it is and being positively forward thinking about how...
Work wellness into meetings
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They told us that technology would usher in the 'era of leisure' and reduced work weeks. They were wrong.
Project management SWAT style
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CGE Vol.13 No.4 April 2007 "The potential to lead is in all of us. If I could learn it at...
The gift of trust
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CGE Vol.13 No.5 May 2007 Karen Ellis is Vice-President of the Public Service Renewal and Diversity Branch at the Public...
Steering your boss in the right direction
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When pondering leadership, we immediately think of exercising our influence downward in the organization.