Incremental change isn't enough
Leading Canadian public servant Jocelyne Bourgon has written a powerful essay about the future of the public service with the misleadingly bland title "New directions in public administration" serving beyond the predictable". The paper, given at a conference in the UK in September, sketches 30 years of dramatic change in public administration to arrrive at this conclusion: New directions in public administration must also entail exploring 1) how to encourage innovation in government t...