All posts tagged "leadership"

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  ‘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

  • Posted June 1, 2023
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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

  • Posted May 29, 2023
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  ‘There’s a sense parts of the public sector are not working as well as they did’: how can governments become more responsive to citizen needs?

  The 2023 Responsive Government Survey reveals that public servants’ confidence in their ability to respond to the changing needs of citizens is lower now than in 2021. What can be

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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  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

  • Posted May 16, 2023
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  ‘Serve your country – you will never regret it’: listen to GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with the White House’s Noreen Hecmanczuk

  In the first of our Leading Questions podcasts to feature an American federal government leader, Noreen Hecmanczuk reflects on a long and diverse career in public service – a career

  • Posted May 4, 2023
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  Lessons for leaders: how top public servants can chart a course to more responsive government

  GGF research reveals that leaders are more confident in their public service organisation’s performance than other staff. Experts set out how they can share what they know to better deliver

  • Posted May 3, 2023
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  UK civil service review to call for more ‘robust culture’ after Raab resignation

  A government-commissioned review of the UK civil service is set to call for greater ministerial involvement in the appointment of top officials, with Singapore and France among the nations that

  • Posted April 24, 2023
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  ‘Unless you fight for it, it’s not worth it once you get there’: Exclusive podcast with South Africa’s cabinet secretary Phindile Baleni

  Series 3 of Global Government Forum’s Leading Questions starts off with a bang – our first interview for the podcast with a serving cabinet secretary: Phindile Baleni, South Africa’s secretary

  • Posted March 30, 2023
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  Innovation 2023 five minutes with… Ann Dunkin, US Department of Energy CIO

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free Innovation conference. Taking place

  • Posted March 15, 2023
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  Innovation 2023 five minutes with… Peter Pogačar, director general of Slovenia’s Ministry of Public Administration

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free Innovation conference. Taking place

  • Posted March 14, 2023
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