Top 10 of 2012: A Year in Review

Before heading out for the holiday season, I figured I'd take a look back at the year that was. Here are the top 10 most popular posts on cpsrenewal.ca last year:

1. How to stop being tech support in 30 days 
2. Debunking the "risk" of working more openly
3. Used to be a public servant, took an arrow to the knee
4. Guerilla Renewal
5. Peak Bureaucracy
6. 8 Simple Rules for Budget Time 
7. All I really need to know about Public Policy I learned from Lego
8. Trust is the only thing that scales 
9. Mapping Internal Policy to the Hype Cycle 
10. Rethinking Government Grants and Contributions

Thanks so much for the support and your time over the past year. I appreciate every read, share and comment.

See you all in the new year.


Originally published by Nick Charney at cpsrenewal.casubscribe/connect

WRU: Links Worth Clicking

First, I should mention that I did an interview with Microsoft which they published to their blog. Here's an excerpt:

I’m quite cognizant of the fact that I advocate for things like open government because I see the benefits to the bureaucrats working inside of those systems. But at some point, the conceptual understanding of open government is going to butt heads with the political reality of what open government can and can’t be, from the political side of things.

I think that’s where bureaucrats are going to start to get into trouble. When do you start to draw all of these threads together? What happens when public servants have greater reach than ministers, at least online, or they’re being quoted in mainstream media outlets, with their names next to ministers, perhaps being perceived as undermining the authority of elected officials because of their subject matter expertise.

You can read the whole thing here.

Second, this is a pretty cool commencement speach that went viral this week (about why the graduates aren't special):

 

Government of Canada

1. Parks Canada staff banned from criticizing Feds http://t.co/PksDNA8Y
2. Government accused of breaking law with budget secrecy http://t.co/fcCUYOEk

Implications for Public Service Renewal

1. Narrative in public management http://t.co/ERAuNndd
2. Why the young should welcome austerity http://t.co/0pS8zdwn
3. A Professor's Cry http://t.co/KYkwhhqF
4. No Naked Emperors: Have the Hard Conversations http://t.co/xqmdzLVs
5. Warning Signs of an Unhealthy Appetite for Risk http://t.co/d7d1kiSk 
6. On Metrics "Why Impressions Are The Most Useless Twitter Stat (And How You Can Measure Better) http://t.co/T938wtXk

For Levity

1. I am Comic Sans, Asshole http://t.co/CLPb1MPa

Cheers

Originally published by Nick Charney at cpsrenewal.casubscribe/connect