Local Government — A Different, and Better, Story
I spoke to local government representatives in Grande Prairie to-day. My thanks to Mayor Bill Given for setting up the opportunity, and my thanks, as well, to an attentive and
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Knowing our leaders as we should — character
In fewer than 10 days Albertans who are card-carrying members of the Progressive Conservative Party will begin the election of a new Party Leader, and Premier of the province. The
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The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) — a model of a learning organization
This past week I spent almost four days with The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) at the Banff Centre, at their Summer Conference. For more than 60 years the ATA has
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A Distant Mirror — Watergate and ‘aerogate’
On June 8th, the Washington Post carried a fascinating article by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, a retrospective about the Watergate affair (here). It speaks to ‘aerogate’ in Alberta. Quoting
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Cabinet Ministers are not merely abject followers
Today’s Edmonton Journal (A20) carries a Letter to the Editor (Blame former Premier only) that epitomizes how challenging it is to understand politics in Alberta. The writer argues that former
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Thinking Differently about Leadership
This post is spurred by a couple of interesting pieces in the most recent edition of the University of Alberta New Trail (alumni magazine). Deconstructing Leadership (read here) and Leadership
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James MacGregor Burns – Leadership
The Washington Post blog carried a post worth reading (here) on Thursday, about the death of James MacGregor Burns. Burns published his most notable work, Leadership, in 1978, and won
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Jeff Johnson & Unhelpful Confrontation – Alta Gov’t. & the ATA
As someone who spent seven years as Minister of Education in Alberta, I have considerable experience with the terrain that the current Minister, Jeff Johnson, is treading. He has chosen
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