by Rachel Smyth | Dec 18, 2020 | News
On 9 December 2020, the Leadership Centre hosted a virtual discussion about leadership and resilience in the time of the pandemic. The topic was proposed by a number of alumni of the Centre’s various leadership programmes and the event was attended by some 25 alumni,...
by Rachel Smyth | Nov 21, 2020 | Blogs
An old Irish quip is that if you want to get to (wherever) I would not start from here. Still in the middle of this epidemic we must ask the question how can we build not a new normal but a better normal, or in the famous advice to Obama in the middle of the 2008...
by Rachel Smyth | Jun 22, 2020 | Blogs
Benjamin Franklin famously claimed that the only two certainties in life were death and taxes. For those of us involved in public service the modern version of that statement might be there is never enough money to meet all our aspirations, and most of whatever money...
by Rachel Smyth | May 6, 2020 | Blogs
How local government responds after the immediate crisis will define not just local government, but the places and people local government serves. ObR predicts perhaps a 15% fall in GDP, this with millions out of work. This will impact places differently, so we need...
by Rachel Smyth | Apr 7, 2020 | Blogs
Just to recognise how unparalleled are the times we are living through consider when else would the Secretary of State for Health announce that he was thinking he might ban exercise! Media coverage has been pretty extensive. However, it is worth considering just who...
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