I wrote a piece recently looking at an OECD report that proffered six attributes of future public servants in a world that is becoming more connected, complex and (sometimes) confusing. These were the six -iteration, data literacy, user centricity, curiosity, storytelling and (a personal favourite) insurgency. This time I’m looking at a couple of linked […]
More on the talent question: skills for the future public service
If there is a talent crisis in the public sector, which I think there is and about which I wrote something in a recent post you can find here, the question is begged what is the mix of talent that the public service of the future needs? It turns out that there’s a fair bit […]
Do bureaucrats care? A take on talent in the public sector
I’ve been interested in the question of talent in the public sector for some time. I think there’s something of a talent crisis across the sector, not because there isn’t enough of it or the right mix (although there are real challenges on both those fronts I suspect), but because I suspect we don’t use […]
Tales from three disruption “sherpas”
On Tuesday last week, I spent an hour with three clever and expert people talking with 100 + lawyers from around the world about the implications of the new formula which goes something like “data + digital = disruption.” [Note – the 100+ lawyers in the room I imagine were pretty smart and expert too, […]
Design, policy and democracy
This week I attended the OpenState event in Adelaide and ran a session exploring the relationship between design, policy and democracy. These are the slides I used to frame the conversation. The session was a bit of an experiment to test an idea that emerged from putting a few pieces of my professional life together […]
Blair on the public service
This is a great interview of Tony Blair about his formation as a politician, political thinker and especially his views about the role of the state (the State too can develop interests) and the role of the public service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0902l3q “What I learnt about bureaucracy is that it is great about managing things but not […]
