idea Archives - Eve Poole

Last week I went to an interesting breakfast forum run by Critical Eye about what the public and private sectors can learn from each other. There was much talk about the ‘vein of gold’ running through the public sector, in the form of the public sector ethos. I am curious about this assumption, for two reasons. One is to do with empirical data about motivation in local government, and the other is the assumption that motivation somehow equates with capability. Read More