Do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? Probably not. But we do need a complete bottom up reinvention of many of our institutions. Latest post. https://t.co/GnZfp0MJ7j

"The success of any community recovery strategy, whether focused on urban regeneration, tackling Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), or implementing localised service delivery, ultimately rests upon one fragile foundation: trust." https://t.co/U3SFmYUVHV

Great bit of foreshadowing by the program designer with Cashy and Buendia on the cover #avfc

"This is our classic paradox: the metrics and targets that are intended to drive improvement can create a powerful set of incentives that actually work against the very innovation and risk-taking we need to strive for." https://t.co/Q5mcS4nzYW

What a day yesterday #avfc

A solid 38 seconds of letting the moment breathe from Darren Fletcher on commentary here. Top work. 🫡

Five Premier League wins in a row ✅✅✅✅✅

Why Decentralised Place-Based Approaches Can Fail ▸ https://t.co/PGqAe2CUq2

The Brighton press box is a few rows above the #AVFC dugout. Some sight in the first half. After Watkins scored his second, Emery tossed his coat and then started furiously pointing at the subs in the bench and shouting, almost Churchillian, that they can win this game

The digital by default model was largely driven by a cost-saving agenda, where the high expense of in-person interactions was the primary justification for pushing services online Read more 👉 https://t.co/rKiaurt24q

Genuine place based and decentralised approaches are not merely structural changes; they are assaults on the fundamental logic of the traditional organisation. Read more 👉 https://t.co/XQhJpw6vWX

We need to shift from traditional, top-down service delivery models to integrated, community-centric approaches. Read more 👉 https://t.co/trZJPcIcGF

We must make a deliberate choice to institutionalise constructive dissent, recognising it as a form of commitment aimed at organisational learning. Read more 👉 https://t.co/ueR1eosTwh

The barrier to collaboration is inertia, and this inertia requires coordinated, multi-level intervention that targets structural reform, cultural change, and incentive realignment simultaneously. Read more 👉 https://t.co/RyUJzas5BG

The deep inertia against collaboration is primarily embedded in the public sector’s legislative, financial, and organisational designs, which inherently reward institutional isolation Read more 👉 https://t.co/SOrT4q76uI

The coordination cost of a big team increases with every new addition, and management becomes nothing more than “link management”. Read more 👉 https://t.co/IoSt234XXl

"Symptoms of Decline: Ideas and approvals crawl up and down the hierarchy, and the organisation becomes plagued by endless meetings and committees, often with unclear objectives, breeding a culture where action is secondary to discussion." https://t.co/upIrIWmBQv

Giving a mandate for constructive dissent must be moved immediately from a discouraged anomaly to a mainstream strategic imperative. Invite treason against the status quo ▸ https://t.co/nWMsCI95pL

The belief that metrics always improve performance is one of the biggest myths of the modern workplace. Read more 👉 https://t.co/oBUsFnvWBa

Why Don’t We Enable More Heretical Thinking At Work?: https://t.co/cxBGCju3I9

The only viable path to genuine public trust is through long-term relational commitment – where we stop treating communities as passive recipients who are there to generate our satisfaction statistics. Read more 👉 https://t.co/eMEq8eIgfF