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The Report Nobody Reads
24 August 2026
An institution can publish hundreds of pages of reports every year and still be seen as closed. The problem isn't the page count.
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Rethinking the Weekly Meeting
11 August 2026
Routine meetings often survive not because they are useful, but because nobody dares to stop them. There is a way to test which ones are worth keeping.
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Numbers That Are Too Neat
29 July 2026
Field data is rarely round. When a report is full of tidy numbers, what needs checking is not the field, but how it was recorded.
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Learning to Read a Budget (Part 1): The Three Columns That Matter
15 July 2026
Budget documents look intimidating because they are thick. Yet for a lay reader, only three columns really need to be understood first.
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Learning to Read a Budget (Part 2): Reading the Difference
22 July 2026
A large gap between the plan and actual spending is not automatically a sign of wrongdoing. There are four common causes to rule out first.
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Public Lecture: Village Data Governance (Recording)
30 June 2026
Recording of a public lecture on how village data is collected, who uses it, and where it usually breaks down.
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Two Words That Save a Meeting: Who, When
18 June 2026
An agreement without a name and a deadline isn't an agreement. It's only a shared intention.
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Why Training Rarely Changes Anything
5 June 2026
A one-day training changes knowledge, not habits. What changes habits is what waits for participants when they get back.
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Consultations That Were Decided in Advance
18 August 2026
A forum that only rubber-stamps decisions already made slowly loses its participants — and its purpose.
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Data Collected Twice
4 August 2026
Village officers fill in forms with the same content for three different agencies. The cost is borne by the people who are paid the least.
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Choosing Indicators That Don't Fool You
8 July 2026
An indicator chosen because it is easy to count will change the work so that it is easy to count. That is no accident.
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The Official Travel Budget and How to Read It
24 June 2026
This line item is criticised most often and read in full least often. There are three things to look at before judging it.
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