Being a helpful kind of guy, I have written a number of blog posts elsewhere about what frustrates good decisions by governments. And how easy it is to get sucked into making bad ones. Sometimes appalling ones that echo down the decades. You can read my top ten here....
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A little while ago I joined Unite the Union, community branch.This is a new development, a first for any union I think, and its based on the changing nature of jobs and work. Unions are still mostly workplace based, but if you are moving in and out of jobs, don't have...
Deming and the future of public services
Back in the 1940s, the great American theorist of 'total quality, W. Edwards Deming warned that assembly lines, in themselves, were not efficient at all. This is rather an important lesson, given that our public services are being re-designed by people who think that...
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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
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