Lessons to learn from the public sector
Nov 12th
It used to be a one way street. A public sector anxious to learn would look to the private sector to know how to do things better. From the public sector reforms of the 80s where ‘private = good, public = bad’, to the Blair reforms with an increasingly mixed market, the public sector has always had a slight inferiority complex about the private sector. (This perpetuated the myth that there was one homogenous thing called the ‘private sector’ which was uniformly excellent in all that it did…)
But there are distinct signs of the tables turning. There are some real