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Guest Post | Public Service: What Else Would I Be Doing?

Erin Gee is a blogger at Haus of Hybrid, a contributor to Huffington Post, a changemaker, and a passionate public servant (whose views, naturally, do not reflect those of her organization). Kent’s...

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A Couple Clarifications

I have two exams in the next week, but I wanted to make a couple quick clarifications based on some commentary I’ve received since my post, and Erin’s guest post, went up. First, while I am obviously...

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The Argument from Personal Incredulity

Occasionally, somewhere within a debate, someone attempts to make a point in this form: “There’s no way that could be the case.” It was pointed out to me while reading about evolutionary biology. The...

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Is there a gap between what we know and what we do?

An aside: My plan for the last couple days was to write a post highlighting some of the best parts of public service, and some of the most inspiring people I’ve worked with. I feel like I’ve been a bit...

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Vicious Cycle

At the end of my last post I referred to a vicious cycle of time demands on senior executives. Here’s an attempt at a graphical explanation.   The theory is: A high degree of centralization means that...

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The Republic of Letters

The Republic of Letters “is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th century in Europe and America. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of Age of Enlightenment.”...

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Perspective on Employee Investments

One of the most obvious responses to an economic downturn (or even a drop in sales), for an organization, is to weather the storm by cutting costs. In the U.K., a survey found that half of large...

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Open Government

A while back, a handful of public servants, myself included, were at a speaker event about fostering social entrepreneurship in Canada. This topic spanned civil society, business, and government, and...

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The World Needs Us To Stop Being Boring

One of my colleagues is a project manager who codes apps in her spare time. Another is an engineer that performs slam poetry at night. One friend, whose government job is in flux, writes a...

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The Next Ten Years

Over the weekend, I discussed with some colleagues the current state of public service. Some messaging, in the form of communications products, suggests a significant pivot in recognition of a rapidly...

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