Decoding tribal culture
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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright Collins, 297 pages,...
How the mighty fail
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Good leaders can make bad decisions. President Kennedy blundered over the Bay of Pigs. Margaret Thatcher championed a poll tax...
Living the canada@150 vision
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Recognizing that the federal public service must evolve to keep pace with change, canada@150 was an innovative project launched to...
Valuing Public Service
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Bill Greenlaw is the elected president of the Institute for Public Administration in Canada. His keynote speech to their annual...
Performance management: What’s in it for you?
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Performance management seems to be everywhere these days, with much of the push coming from central agencies.
The CFO’s role in fiscal sustainability
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In the current economic climate, the finance function role in the public service is under a spotlight.
Principles, drivers and the little picture
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Wondering why it sometimes seems so blankety-blank hard to get anything done these days? Everybody will have their own take...
Cadre supérieur et coach: une seule et même personne?
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La recherche démontre hors de tout doute que le fait de consulter un coach professionnel a permis à de nombreux...
Fitting P3s into public procurement
4 min read
In most democracies public procurement is expected to be fair, transparent and provide equal opportunity.
The Boomerang executive
6 min read
Whether it's travel, improving your golf swing or finally tackling the to-do list, nearly everyone longs for the relaxation, leisure...