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Public service: Governance governs…without having any control! Help me, please, get some medication prescribed!
Written by Bernard Brault on 23/03/2010
The role of the ISM is not to add fuel to the fire; there are others who can do it better than us. The role of the ISM is to bring into the light and analyse pragmatically a confused situation when, apparently, the management has lost control. I feel like I’m repeating myself. For several [...]
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Québec City: Governance governs…There too?
Written by Bernard Brault on 20/03/2010
I have to admit that I am disappointed. As a Montrealer who is used to living in controversy and administrative inefficiency, practically in potholes and political paradox, I am disappointed. As far as I am concerned, Québec city was the last bulwark of a politically clean town, somewhat old fashioned, yet attractive and based on [...]
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Health: governing without accountability means managing freely
Written by Bernard Brault on 08/03/2010
In fact, the term imputabilité in French has a different meaning from the one given for accountability in Shakespeare’s language. Therefore, when talking about a person in French, it seems that you can’t use the term imputable but responsable.
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Saint-Hippolyte : the city hall has a big interest in the Sound management model
Written by Bernard Brault on 18/02/2010
The ISM’s mission is to promote and to encourage managers as well as public and private organizations in their effort to guide their management towards a Sound Management in conformity with our definition.
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Municipality and sound management audit® – A glimpse at their history
Written by Bernard Brault on 07/02/2010
Back in 1999, the town of Iberville (before the merging) was the first municipality to have accepted a Sound Management Audit ® and to have received a certificate of conformity with the GASMP.
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Montreal: it is also the governance that governs! Does it also steer the vessel?
Written by Bernard Brault on 04/02/2010
During this week, the media has found new controversial material about the municipal public management. Montreal and the generous golden parachutes are once again on the carpet.
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Caisse de dépôt: Governance Governs, But Does It Think It Through?
Written by Bernard Brault on 29/01/2010
In terms of Sound Management, the management should have taken into consideration the principles of transparency and abnegation while dealing with the organization’s strategic challanges. If the management has already forgotten the terrible confusion created by the loss of $40 billion, the media and the people, they haven’t forgotten it…yet!
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Ethics and sound management
Written by Bernard Brault on 05/12/2009
Asking a politician about integrity and virtue and this in the context of a media crisis means spotting the “Achilles’ heel.”
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