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David Boyle: applying the ‘people principle’
The importance of human-scale institutions has been a key theme throughout David Boyle’s work. Now the former journalist has written a guide to restoring ‘the human element’ to organisations. Clare Goff meets him
‘What we require is a revolution,’ says David Boyle. ‘A revolution that takes us away from the idea that all organisations are basically factories and that all public services are assembly lines.’
The shift in public services has only just begun
We asked six experts to give their verdict on the events of 2011 in the key areas of public services, local economic development and regeneration, civil society, poverty, sustainability and housing and suggest the way forward in 2012. Simon Parker kicks the series off by examining the impact of public sector cutbacks
Eric Hobsbawm famously argued that there existed a ‘long 19th century’ bounded by the French Revolution and the First World War, and a short ?20th century that followed the rise and fall of Soviet Communism.
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