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Storytelling
Slack on posting. Been traveling. One of the themes that’s been floating through my head lately is storytelling – in the conventional sense and as applied to business and government through...
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Response to The Nineteenth Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public...
I look forward, every year, to reading the Clerk of the Privy Council’s Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada. It helps me feel a part of a the Public Service as an...
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The Information
Given that I’ve been on vacation, all that I have to bring to the table today are some highlights from The Information by James Gleick, which came with me to Prince Edward Island. Surprisingly...
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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 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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Books Isn’t Dead
People have cried: “Newspapers are dead!” “The printed book is dead!” At least in the case of the latter I have to imagine the point was page hits, not presenting a genuine belief. Printed books sales...
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Collaboration Needs Structure
Josh Belinko and I sat down for our first GTEC (Government Technology Exhibition and Conference) 2013 scheming session this week, and I was pleased to notice an item on the organizer’s draft list of...
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The Management Fog of War
A note: A surprising number of people sent around my Collaboration Needs Structure post. Which A) makes me wish I’d written it more clearly and concisely, and B) somewhat blows me away. I still find it...
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Entitlement Generation
This post was supposed to be a counterpoint to the last, but I have to study, so just a quick question for today. There are a lot of business writers lambasting Gen Y/Millennials, pointing to our sense...
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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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