OECD organised a session on 9/12 in the series #govaftershock.
December : Do not forget to add a Christmas tree in your zoom background
Bridget N Jennions - CPI (Center of Public Impact) on complexity and relationship building
CPI not enough on how government should be
instead of what government does
1. Most of the challenges are complex
2. Quality of relationships matters (listening, collaborating cross-silo)
3 Progress experimenation and continuous learning (experimental mindset and big question how it could work. Let's look at some govafershcock questions
Think system - act local
Share power with best people to act
Challenge hierarchy
Champion the ones we hear the least
Optimise to learn instead of control
-> Government has to move for everyone #reimaginegov
And what to keep, leave behind or start doing?
1. Keep
- consensus of govafterschock to keep
- creating the community that we seek in this learning organisation
- frontline services - short feedback loops better than in central government
example check NHS - busting bureaucracy report
2. Leave behind
- short term thinking (political cycles) - think bigger pictures
- BLM creates spaces and longer term thinking
- failure of public sector: siloed and linear movements
3. start doing
- relationships crosssilos to start
- the art of listening
- also gov can be vulnerable as an aspect and ultimately advancing
- putting the focus on an inclusive recovery
Lessns learned : drafting a delicate theory of change in the public sector -