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Leading a culture of change
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Public sector leaders face an environment characterized by complexity, shifting demographics and ever greater demands for transparency, accountability and value...
Constant change is the new normal
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The second annual CGE Leadership Summit was held yesterday in Ottawa. The session focused on public sector change and leadership,...
Can a Chatham House Party cure CLM Disease?
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Departments and social media platforms within the government have been encouraging dialogue regarding Blueprint 2020. Our premise was that completely...
The Purple Zone: Political-administrative interface
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In 1996, Pacific Rim Commonwealth countries shared experiences in managing complexity at the political-administrative interface. The ‘Purple Zone’ was conceptualized...
Looking beyond efficiency
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The changes that the public sector is going through are well known, and to many long suffering public servants seem...
Blueprint 2020: The canary in the coal mine
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December was the six month check-in for Blueprint 2020, the current vision-setting exercise for the Canadian public service. The Blueprint...
Responsibility to create: Politicians and a professional public service
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Prime ministers matter when it comes to public service reform. In the U.K., Prime Minister David Cameron has led an...
Behavioural science and Blueprint 2020
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If you’ve read Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, you know that the idea of using behavioural economics to...
Blueprint 2020: New process, same destination
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Blueprint 2020 follows similar efforts of previous Clerks who were trying to build a “modern” public service, less bound by...
Reinventing government and democracy for the Digital Age
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The push for government cutbacks is running up against growing public expectations about what government should be and do. They...