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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

Consultation and Leadership – Leaders like Nelson Mandela knew instinctively when NOT to consult …!

For those who have been glued to television screens to follow the various commemorations of the life of the former...

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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

The whole is greater … … – than the sum of the parts …

It has long been asserted that a public consultation is fault-intolerant. By this we mean that one can be successful...

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Purists and Pragmatists – Consultation can expose significant tensions among stakeholders

From time to time, democracies provide the spectacle of a tussle between ideologies – or at least, philosophies American politics,...

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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

Consulting the powerful – Are the rules different?

It is quite easy sometimes to imagine that all public or stakeholder consultations are dialogues between the usual bureaucracies and...

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Ten years on … – The Consultation Institute has much to do in the next ten years – but the agenda is changing!

  When the Institute began in 2003, there was quite a lot of public and stakeholder consultation. Some of it...

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Posted 12 years ago6 minute read

Had Mrs Nash been quicker? – Clarifying Councils’ consultation obligations; ‘Best Value’ still lives!

Considering the sheer number of judicial reviews sought on issues of consultation and engagement in recent years, it may surprise...

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