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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleVicious 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...
View ArticleThe 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.”...
View ArticlePerspective 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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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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