Mindspace

Although we can, with some justice, argue that local government has always been in the business of behaviour change, there’s little doubt that since the publication of Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s Nudge, there’s a much greater interest these days in behavioural economics. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been reading two of the [...]

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The Pushmi-pullyu approach to social reform

 The idea that there can be perfect congruence from the vision and aspirations of an organisation all the way through its various strategies and action plans to an individual employee’s objectives has always struck me as overly simplistic. In practice, the so called ‘golden thread’ tends to be as elusive as the golden medina. In a similar way, [...]

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Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers

Last week, together with a number of other colleagues I met with the Campaign Company to learn more about some of the very interesting work they have been doing with outer London boroughs on community cohesion issues. They take a ‘values modes’ (VM) based approach, making use of cultural dynamics. VM is mapping system that [...]

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