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Public Service Leadership & Management

‘Find your references, your mirrors and your mentors’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with the Spanish government’s deputy director of learning, Israel Pastor Sainz-Pardo

In this episode of Leading Questions, podcast host Siobhan Benita speaks know-how and knock-backs with the deputy director of learning at Spain’s National Institute of Public Administration. Israel Pastor has […]

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‘The question is not is the civil service fit for purpose, it’s is government fit for purpose’: how officials and ministers can work together

The relationship between civil servants and ministers is in the headlines in the UK like never before. At a Global Government Forum webinar, experts discussed the cause of the breakdown […]
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Letter from Ottawa: transitions and reboots for the public service

A new clerk takes the top job at a period of unusual attention and angst in the Canadian government. Political tumult is ever-present, even two years from an election, and […]
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Australia to launch policy evaluation centre to ‘build a better feedback loop in government’

The Australian government is to establish a new centre for policy evaluation to help it understand what works in policy delivery, and what can work better. The Australian Centre for […]

‘Empowering people with a sense of possibility’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with New Zealand’s former public service chief Iain Rennie

Global Government Forum’s latest Leading Questions podcast features Iain Rennie, whose decades-long public service career culminated in eight years as New Zealand’s state services commissioner. In this episode, Iain tells […]
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Canadian PM Trudeau names new clerk of privy council as Janice Charette announces retirement

Canada’s most senior public servant, Janice Charette, is to retire as clerk of the privy council and secretary to the cabinet and will be replaced by John Hannaford, the country’s […]
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Ministers need to better understand the tension between urgency and realism in government if they want to deliver

Failures in government policy delivery are often blamed on civil servants. But, in the second of two articles for Global Government Forum, Andrew Kakabadse, professor of governance and leadership at […]
Former UK government cabinet secretary Lord Gus O'Donnell

New salvos fired in the wars of Whitehall

British ministers have been clashing with civil servants over Brexit and bullying – with some pushing for greater powers to appoint officials. At an Institute for Government debate, however, panellists […]

Is dealing with aggressive ministers now the reality for UK civil servants?

Aggressive ‘Raab-like’ behaviour is endemic in the ministerial environment and, if it continues, we cannot expect the civil service to continue displaying unquestionable devotion to duty, says Andrew Kakabadse, professor […]

Australia appoints new public service commissioner

Gordon de Brouwer has been appointed Australian Public Service commissioner and will start his five-year term on 11 May, the federal government has announced. The economist, academic and public servant […]