Why trust beats hierarchy
There has been some wonderful writing about leadership in the last 3 months, nailing the qualities of inspirational individuals. I’ll take fifty each of Kit, Janet and Benji please.
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What if boldness were an explicit value of the civil service?
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it takes to get difficult and meaningful things done. Why it’s hard, exhausting and incredibly…rewarding to make progress. What kinds of values and behaviours can help make a team in the civil service (or anywhere else) successful, productive and a complete joy to work with compared with one that isn’t. ¶ The civil service values (impartiality, objectivity, integrity and honesty) are necessary, of course, and a team can be pretty horrible and destructive if you don’t see those values in pretty clear abundance.
Janet HughesJan 26
From Maps to Metaphors: Governing (In) A World That Doesn’t Exist
originally published in “FutureTense”, a publication of the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Singapore (http://bit.ly/1O2ZXfw)Before travelling to new places, we instinctively look for maps: either a physical map, charting out relative locations or distances, or a subjective map of friends’ impressions and perspectives. ¶ This need for maps reflects an age-old human yearning for order in an often messy and unpredictable reality. Maps give direction and articulation to the unknown, which they categorise and conceptualise.
Aaron ManiamJan 6