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Category Archives: Culture
PROTECT THE DEVIANTS!
I was a “risky” hire. Not quite cut from the same cloth. A slightly irregular education. A different sort of professional background. An advocate for better, maybe not anonymous enough…someone with an opinion. The system, like any mature system, naturally … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Leadership, Positive Change, Rant, Uncategorized
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The Crowded Boardroom: When the long tail collides with hierarchy – a true story.
This not a random picture, it is how I envision the government. Each ship is a department or agency. The ships have commanders with considerable authority. Communication at a distance is very bad, (they did it with flags). Groups of … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Leadership, Positive Change, Presentation
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The sausage and the salad
Traditional government policy results in sausages. Open policy making produces salads. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Open Government, Positive Change
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No one cares about open government
Open government is one of those terms that has different meanings depending upon your perspective.You might feel it is mostly about open data, or making information freely available, or you might think it is about engaging with constituents. In 2014 … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Open Data, Open Government
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So what’s with the ducks?
Those of you that have been to my office know that I seem to have an obsession with ducks, particularly the bathtub kind. My collection of rubber, plastic, glass and paper ducks was mostly accumulated a few years ago … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Marketing & Communication
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You can change culture now: 3 essential truths for public service leaders
Three profound truths that I discovered at a red light one day… Continue reading
Good enough, is.
I have worked with government now for about 15 years and somewhere in that period I became infected with Public Service Renewal disease. I call it that because that was I how I first learned to articulate it. But you … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Leadership, Positive Change, Rant
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Three words for the season
This holiday season I would like to share a song with you from a band that my teenage son introduced to me to. It is certainly not a Christmas song, but I think the sentiment is one that is appropriate. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Positive Change
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The Importance of Open
Over the years I have had the chance to reflect upon lessons from quite a few successful and unsuccessful projects. One of the more significant things that I have been lucky enough to be involved with is helping to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Gov 2.0, Rant
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Collaboration Tools the Shirky Ladder
This post originally appeared as part of the GTEC 2013 Blog Collaboration is a word you hear a lot these days, and its one of GTEC13’s theme words. In the Government of Canada (GC) Public Service context, the Chief Information … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Gov 2.0
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