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Table of Contents
- | Introduction 9
- Beyond the traditional clichés 12
- The rise of network governance 13
- The federal bureaucracy under siege 16
- The process 18
- The outcome: probing a mindset 20
- References 22
- Chapter 1 25
- | Cat’s cradling: the capacity to cope 25
- A syncretic view of each theme discussed 26
- Contextual issues and interpersonal rapport 26
- Diversity 26
- Security 28
- Ethics 30
- Disloyalty 33
- Organizational culture and new governance tools 35
- Corporate culture 35
- The Gomery world 36
- Public-private partnerships 40
- Partitioning anew the federal public service 42
- A personal distillation of what we learned 43
- The decline of open critical thinking 44
- Lack of gumption 45
- Conclusion 49
- References 51
- Annex : Basic documentation for each session 52
- Diversity 52
- Ethics 52
- Disloyalty 53
- Corporate culture 53
- The Gomery world 53
- Public-private partnerships 53
- Partitioning anew the federal public service 54
- Chapter 2 55
- | Cat’s eyes: the capacity to 55
- engage intelligently 55
- A syncretic view of each theme discussed 56
- Intelligent accountability 56
- Intelligent regulation 58
- Intelligent organizational design 60
- Intelligent public service 62
- A personal distillation of what we learned 64
- A cautionary statement 64
- Somebody is in charge and it is not me 67
- Déformation professionnelle 68
- Cognitive dissonance 70
- The presence of latent fear 71
- Conclusion 73
- References 74
- Annex: Basic documentation for each session 75
- Chapter 3 77
- | Not in the catbird seat: the 77
- capacity to collibrate 77
- A syncretic view of each theme discussed 78
- Perverse incentives 78
- Rewarding failure and deception 79
- Punishing success 81
- Positive discrimination 82
- Failure to confront 84
- Pathologies and challenges 85
- Quantophrenia 85
- Performance review 88
- Speaking truth to power 89
- What role for cities in public governance? 91
- A personal distillation of what we learned 92
- Moral vacancy 92
- Crippling epistemologies 95
- Risk aversion and fear of experimentation 97
- Conclusion 98
- References 100
- Annex: Basic documentation for each session 103
- Rewarding failure and deception 103
- Punishing success 103
- Positive discrimination 103
- Failure to confront 103
- Quantophrenia 103
- Performance review 103
- Speaking truth to power 104
- What role for cities in public governance? 104
- Chapter 4 105
- | The unwisdom of cats: 105
- the capacity to reframe 105
- A syncretic view of each theme discussed 106
- The political-bureaucratic interface 106
- The federal public service as a nexus of moral contracts 109
- From leadership to stewardship 111
- A personal distillation of what we learned 116
- Difficulty in thinking about systems 116
- Experts can’t learn … 117
- A tiny bit of intellectual nonchalance 118
- Conclusion 120
- References 121
- Annex : Basic documentation for each session 122
- The political-bureaucratic interface 122
- Federal public serviceas nexus of moral contracts 122
- From leadership to stewardship 122
- Deputy Minister: then, now and in the future 122
- | Conclusion 123
- Four layers of capabilities 125
- A syndrome … tentatively 127
- Cosmology-less wayfinding 130
- The way out and forward … a catwalk 133
- Toward a new covenant through 136
- a new inquiring system 136
- One starting point 142
- In summary 145
- References 146
- | References 149