| My work focuses on public management, including issues such as governance, accountability,
public-sector
performance measurement, and strategy development. I advise organizations in the public
and private sectors, do research and analysis for
them, and design and implement professional development
programs. I have also published extensively on issues of interest to practitioners .
I have made
a career of helping organizations dig through complex issues
to reach essential principles that provide a basis for moving
forward. Clients value my understanding of the practice
and theory of governance and accountability. They look to
my analytical skills, my talent for cutting to the core of difficult questions,, my
ability to write with precision and clarity, my diverse
professional experience, and my capacity for teaching and
facilitation.
While my practice is primarily with public-sector clients, I have also worked with private sector organizations on questions of corporate
responsibility. My approach is multi-disciplinary,
because my view is that for all practical purposes, governance, |
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accountability and corporate responsibility are tightly
intertwined. Accountability is at the heart of governance,
and corporate responsibility is, at its root, a governance
issue.
Governance
is about the use and control of power and authority.
It is about who makes decisions, who influences decisions
and how decision-makers are held accountable. Whether it
be a matter of how government departments hold themselves
accountable to citizens for the effectiveness of public
programs, or how boards of directors control the exercise
of power by chief executives, governance is a core management,
social, political and economic issue.
Corporate responsibility is about defining and understanding the scope
of a corporation's accountability. The classic view holds
that a corporation is accountable to shareholders. A broader view, often presented under the rubric of "corporate responsibility", holds that corporate accountability extends to the full
range of stakeholders affected by corporate decisions. When
boards of directors
take this seriously, stakeholder considerations become incorporated
into the governance of the corporation.
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