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Blair McPherson
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04 Aug 2016 - 22:04

null The sword in hand

  "Ministers should abandon the sword in hand model of performance management.  At a time when resources are so constrained and demand is rising, why does the state rely on crude forms of performance management, take a gladiatorial stance toward anyone dealing in evidence, and preside over systems exhausted by policy churn and structural change?"   "In their hearts, ministers... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:27

null Why don't we do what works?

   In her new book “Delivering public services that work” Charlotte Dell gives case example after case example of public sector organisations that have found a better way of doing something only to find that instead of being more widely adopted they are ignored in favour of more politically fashionable but unproven solutions. In a recent article in the professional press (Public... See more
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