On rewiring the state part three — join the conversation on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-before-odysseus-ugcPost-7489455705083588610-uWgy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACuq-oBecVFDW6PCf3lkoG-peMeuLBeoho Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca after twenty years. But he doesn’t walk through the front door celebrating; he’s in disguise. His home has been occupied, resources consumed. He can’t trust the place. That’s uncomfortably close to the position of … Continue reading On rewiring the state – Odyssey’s End (It’s not the hope series, part three)
On rewiring the state – back to Bag End – (It’s not the hope series, part two)
On rewiring the state - join the conversation on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_imagine-fighting-your-way-across-middle-earth-activity-7489938513203859456-lzWg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACuq-oBecVFDW6PCf3lkoG-peMeuLBeoho Imagine fighting your way across Middle-earth, destroying the Ring, and finally coming home. Only to discover that the Shire still needs saving.That may be the right metaphor for ‘Rewiring the State’ – and for the recent social care speech.It’s fantastic. Real devolution, local fiscal … Continue reading On rewiring the state – back to Bag End – (It’s not the hope series, part two)
On rewiring the state – ‘at last, rain’ – (It’s not the hope series, part one)
On rewiring the state — join the conversation on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_at-last-rain-after-years-of-public-service-activity-7489605926317023232-urox?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACuq-oBecVFDW6PCf3lkoG-peMeuLBeoho At last, rain! After years of public service drought, the announcement of real devolution - and social care hope - is - just - bloody brilliant!More local power and fiscal freedom. Public services organised around place. A smaller centre. More space for prevention, neighbourhood working and relational … Continue reading On rewiring the state – ‘at last, rain’ – (It’s not the hope series, part one)
Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #232
My weekly posts We didn’t lose the technology. We lost the machinery for learning together We keep rediscovering the same local digital problems because we dismantled the machinery for learning together. From BVPI 157 to SAVVI and Open Referral UK, the useful bit was never the target itself, but the shared standards, memory and practical … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #232
We didn’t lose the technology. We lost the machinery for learning together
From mainframes and BVPI 157 to SAVVI, Open Referral UK and the unfinished business of local digital government Join the debate on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_localgovernment-datastandards-publicservicetransformation-share-7488562400292671488-9s2A/ ___ ‘We can’t, we don’t know how to do it any more’ When I joined Hammersmith & Fulham in 1998, the council ran on a mainframe. We introduced internet email that … Continue reading We didn’t lose the technology. We lost the machinery for learning together
We didn’t lose the technology. We lost the machinery for learning together
From mainframes and BVPI 157 to SAVVI, Open Referral UK and the unfinished business of local digital government Join the debate on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_localgovernment-datastandards-publicservicetransformation-share-7488562400292671488-9s2A/ 'We can't, we don't know how to do it any more' When I joined Hammersmith & Fulham in 1998, the council ran on a mainframe. We introduced internet email that year … Continue reading We didn’t lose the technology. We lost the machinery for learning together
What if one of the most underestimated risks in LGR is institutional bereavement?
Join the conversation on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_localgovernment-lgr-publicservicetransformation-activity-7488141561860431873-twJl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACuq-oBecVFDW6PCf3lkoG-peMeuLBeohoThis occurred to me after interviewing Simon Higgins about his experience of the Cumbria reorganisation. Simon talked about people who had begun their careers in one of the seven councils, met their partners there, had children, and accumulated decades of relationships and memories across a whole career. Then the organisation … Continue reading What if one of the most underestimated risks in LGR is institutional bereavement?
What empowerment asks us to grieve
Join the debate on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_what-if-empowerment-has-to-pass-through-grief-share-7487768478897270786-8vgE/ Bottom, Customer and Citizen Space — and the different sources of power available in each relationship. What if empowerment has to pass through grief? We often talk as though people can simply step out of powerlessness and into ‘Citizen Space’: Stop complaining. Take responsibility. Get involved. But something … Continue reading What empowerment asks us to grieve
Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #231
My weekly posts What happens when the people getting a new council safely to day one are also the people who will have to make it work on day two? An interview with Simon Higgins has reinforced for me that successful local government reorganisation is about far more than getting to day one safely. It requires … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #231
What happens when the people getting a new council safely to day one are also the people who will have to make it work on day two?
Local government reorganisation is about merging cultures. Join the conversation on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_localgovernment-lgr-publicservicetransformation-ugcPost-7485626195032641536-KIro/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADUV_eUBZSxZvFpx70OV050F6K5HM2MhTMo What happens when the people getting a new council safely to day one are also the people who will have to make it work on day two? I’ve just recorded an interview with Simon Higgins, who has an unusually useful perspective on … Continue reading What happens when the people getting a new council safely to day one are also the people who will have to make it work on day two?
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