Collaborative effort to renew public service culture
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Recently I had the opportunity to be part of a panel discussion at the Collaborative Culture Camp (C3) in Ottawa...
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...
Organizing NGOs: Transplanting a chamber model
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Canada's non-profit and voluntary sector is in a peculiar position. For a sector that is 161,000 organizations strong, boasts a...
Expenditure management: Why Ottawa’s system won’t work without political commitment
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CGE Vol.13 No.9 November 2007 The new expenditure management system announced by the Harper government is not a surprise -...