"La vocation de l'antimanuel est de faire le ménage sur. un terrain jonché de postulats naïfs, de raisonnements courts, de propositions dogmatiques et de recettes simplistes pour le décontaminer. Objectif : débronzer les dogmes, aider à prendre une vue d'ensemble des questions en suspens et faciliter le travail de la pensée critique. En combattant toute orthodoxie, l'antimanuel est donc une forme bien ajustée au contenu de l'approche de la gouvernance - qui est essentiellement subversive. Ce travail de déblayage part d'un besoin d'antidote et s'attaque d'abord au plus toxique : aux virus qui minent les discussions sur la gouvernance collaborative. Quant au travail de construction qui obligatoirement doit suivre, comme il est prématuré de penser à des traités formels dans le monde de la gouvernance collaborative pour le moment, l'antimanuel vise relativement bas : il veut seulement aider le lecteur à identifier les pathologies de gouvernance les plus importantes et à apprécier ce qui peut être fait pour améliorer la situation." (G. R)

Gouvernance colloborative - Un antimanuel

Scheming Virtuously: The Road to Collaborative Governance is an invitation to subversion, but also a somewhat personal account of the displacement of the dominant governing regime (Big-G centralized government) by small-g collaborative governance, in a world where power, resources, and information are widely distributed. In this new world, the citizen's burden of office is clear: to be a producer of governance. Scheming virtuously is the order of the day-active engagement, imaginative problem-reframing, astute organizational design, and effective action within the bounds of the appreciative systems in good currency and beyond. Scheming Virtuously: The Road to Collaborative Governance is an invitation to subversion, but also a somewhat personal account of the displacement of the dominant governing regime (Big-G centralized government) by small-g collaborative governance, in a world where power, resources, and information are widely distributed. In this new world, the citizen's burden of office is clear: to be a producer of governance. Scheming virtuously is the order of the day-active engagement, imaginative problem-reframing, astute organizational design, and effective action within the bounds of the appreciative systems in good currency and beyond.

Scheming Virtuously - The Road to Collaborative Governance

Ce Tableau d'avancement II fait suite à un premier volume (Tableau d'avancement I publié en 2008) qui examinait rétrospectivement l'enlisement de certains chefs politiques, de certains intellectuels influents, et de certaines institutions du Canada français au cours de la dernière moitié du 20e siècle. Tableau d'avancement II prend plutôt un regard prospectif sur la gouvernance du Canada français : pour exposer les cosmologies dominantes qui distordent nos manières de voir, pour illustrer comment des outillages inédits sont nécessaires dans des dossiers précis, pour supputer sur quoi la dérive de la société québécoise pourrait déboucher quand on s'interroge sur son avenir 50 ans après la Révolution tranquille, et pour s'attaquer aux problèmes himalayens de l'innovation, de l'incertitude et de la collaboration auxquels la gouvernance du Canada français va devoir faire face au 21e siècle. Ce Tableau d'avancement II fait suite à un premier volume (Tableau d'avancement I publié en 2008) qui examinait rétrospectivement l'enlisement de certains chefs politiques, de certains intellectuels influents, et de certaines institutions du Canada français au cours de la dernière moitié du 20e siècle. Tableau d'avancement II prend plutôt un regard prospectif sur la gouvernance du Canada français : pour exposer les cosmologies dominantes qui distordent nos manières de voir, pour illustrer comment des outillages inédits sont nécessaires dans des dossiers précis, pour supputer sur quoi la dérive de la société québécoise pourrait déboucher quand on s'interroge sur son avenir 50 ans après la Révolution tranquille, et pour s'attaquer aux problèmes himalayens de l'innovation, de l'incertitude et de la collaboration auxquels la gouvernance du Canada français va devoir faire face au 21e siècle.

Tableau d'avancement II - Essais exploratoires sur la gouvernance d'un certain Canada français

Pathologies de gouvernance : essais de technologie sociale

This short book contributes to accelerating the process of recognition of governance studies as a heuristically powerful field of study in two distinct ways. In Part I, it shows first how the governance approach has emerged in response to the limitations of the two main cosmologies that have dominated the 20th century scene type-I liberalism rooted in the market and decentralization; and type-II liberalism rooted in statism and centralization. It proposes a better way to respond effectively to the challenges of effective coordination when power, resources and information are widely distributed into many hands and heads. This new approach has been criticized by the defenders of the ruling cosmologies, but it has evolved effective prototypes of inquiring systems capable of guiding the search for effective wayfinding and for the design of organizational arrangements ensuring effectiveness, resilience and innovation. In Part II, it explores how the governance approach may help in tackling wicked policy problems where ends are neither well known nor agreed upon, and means-ends relationships are either poorly understood or unstable. Three somewhat different cases are discussed: equality where a dominant ideology of egalitarianism in democratic societies is challenged with great difficulty by a cosmology of equability; diversity where, in Canada, maximum diversity would appear to be regarded as optimal diversity, and multiculturalism is propagandized as the nec plus ultra response even though it may be shown to be toxic; and sustainability, where the problem definition and the general direction in which a viable organizational learning regime will emerge are unclear. On both fronts, the book tries to bring a bit of subtlety, a taste for complexity, and some innovative ideas to debates that have wallowed, both at the conceptual and at the practical levels, in ideologically muddy waters.This short book contributes to accelerating the process of recognition of governance studies as a heuristically powerful field of study in two distinct ways. In Part I, it shows first how the governance approach has emerged in response to the limitations of the two main cosmologies that have dominated the 20th century scene type-I liberalism rooted in the market and decentralization; and type-II liberalism rooted in statism and centralization. It proposes a better way to respond effectively to the challenges of effective coordination when power, resources and information are widely distributed into many hands and heads. This new approach has been criticized by the defenders of the ruling cosmologies, but it has evolved effective prototypes of inquiring systems capable of guiding the search for effective wayfinding and for the design of organizational arrangements ensuring effectiveness, resilience and innovation. In Part II, it explores how the governance approach may help in tackling wicked policy problems where ends are neither well known nor agreed upon, and means-ends relationships are either poorly understood or unstable. Three somewhat different cases are discussed: equality where a dominant ideology of egalitarianism in democratic societies is challenged with great difficulty by a cosmology of equability; diversity where, in Canada, maximum diversity would appear to be regarded as optimal diversity, and multiculturalism is propagandized as the nec plus ultra response even though it may be shown to be toxic; and sustainability, where the problem definition and the general direction in which a viable organizational learning regime will emerge are unclear. On both fronts, the book tries to bring a bit of subtlety, a taste for complexity, and some innovative ideas to debates that have wallowed, both at the conceptual and at the practical levels, in ideologically muddy waters.

Tackling Wicked Policy Problems

Ce petit livre reprend en gros le contenu de la conférence d'ouverture livrée dans le programme de certification universitaire en gouvernance de sociétés du Collège des Administrateurs de l'Université Laval. Gouvernance corporative connote ici la coordination efficace et dynamique de l'organisation quand pouvoir, ressources et information sont vastement distribués entre plusieurs mains - dans le privé, le public, le communautaire, etc. Ce petit livre reprend en gros le contenu de la conférence d'ouverture livrée dans le programme de certification universitaire en gouvernance de sociétés du Collège des Administrateurs de l'Université Laval. Gouvernance corporative connote ici la coordination efficace et dynamique de l'organisation quand pouvoir, ressources et information sont vastement distribués entre plusieurs mains - dans le privé, le public, le communautaire, etc.

Gouvernance corporative - Une entrée en matières

Pasquinade is a satire or critical comment traditionally posted in a public place in ancient Rome; in particular, on the statue of Pasquino. Pasquinades in E is Gilles Paquet's contribution to this waning tradition. These essays are exercises in critical thinking. They aim to exorcise a number of mental prisons about aspects of governing, and at denouncing pathologies in our ways of thinking and governing ourselves, by exposing their toxic nature. Silence on such matters connotes tacit agreement with toxic nonsense and, therefore, guilt by association for the ensuing mal-governance. Pasquinade is a satire or critical comment traditionally posted in a public place in ancient Rome; in particular, on the statue of Pasquino. Pasquinades in E is Gilles Paquet's contribution to this waning tradition. These essays are exercises in critical thinking. They aim to exorcise a number of mental prisons about aspects of governing, and at denouncing pathologies in our ways of thinking and governing ourselves, by exposing their toxic nature. Silence on such matters connotes tacit agreement with toxic nonsense and, therefore, guilt by association for the ensuing mal-governance.

Pasquinade in E - Slaughtering Some Sacred Cows

Too many stakeholders have neglected their duty of imagining an aspiring federal capital region for Canada. Under the auspices of the Forum of Federations, a number of persons interested in the fate of Canada's federal capital region came together to examine the challenges facing the region and to put forward suggestions to deal with them. In this report on the brainstorming exercise conducted in January 2011, professionals, academics, and elected officials take stock of the vast array of assets on which the federal capital region can build; probe the many sources of failures in coping as effectively and creatively as one would expect with the diversity, trans-border, financial, and governance challenges; and make suggestions to ensure that the federal capital region does not remain "unimagined" in the future. Too many stakeholders have neglected their duty of imagining an aspiring federal capital region for Canada. Under the auspices of the Forum of Federations, a number of persons interested in the fate of Canada's federal capital region came together to examine the challenges facing the region and to put forward suggestions to deal with them. In this report on the brainstorming exercise conducted in January 2011, professionals, academics, and elected officials take stock of the vast array of assets on which the federal capital region can build; probe the many sources of failures in coping as effectively and creatively as one would expect with the diversity, trans-border, financial, and governance challenges; and make suggestions to ensure that the federal capital region does not remain "unimagined" in the future.

The Unimagined Canadian Capital - Challenges for the Federal Capital Region

This book looks into the forces at work that have undermined critical thinking and sound intellectual inquiry in the world of public affairs in Canada, have fostered reductive perspectives and destructive blockages to collaborative governance to emerge, and have succeeded in blinding observers to the real sources of the present Canadian malaise, blocking the road to imaginative repairs. Part I deals frontally with the twilight of critical thinking that has led to a dramatic weakening of the critical examination of issues, and the process of inquiry that has been significantly weakened by ever narrower perspectives. Part II focuses on two mental prisons: the obsessive and reductive insistence on a quantophrenic twist (only that which can be quantified counts); and the failure by crucial partners to live up to the requirements of their burden of office in circumstances when disloyalty considerably enfeebles the possibility of effective collaborative governance and the chance for organizations to succeed. Part III suggests that it is not impossible to get rid of the blinders preventing the adoption of more synoptic approaches, and the exploration of more imaginative designs to repair our organizations and institutions. Ways to deal with the challenges facing the Canadian socio-economy are hinted at, and the work of a successful social architect showcased. The conclusion makes the case for an approach that is both synoptic and guided by reasonableness - against the dogmas of disciplines and skimpy rationality. This book looks into the forces at work that have undermined critical thinking and sound intellectual inquiry in the world of public affairs in Canada, have fostered reductive perspectives and destructive blockages to collaborative governance to emerge, and have succeeded in blinding observers to the real sources of the present Canadian malaise, blocking the road to imaginative repairs. Part I deals frontally with the twilight of critical thinking that has led to a dramatic weakening of the critical examination of issues, and the process of inquiry that has been significantly weakened by ever narrower perspectives. Part II focuses on two mental prisons: the obsessive and reductive insistence on a quantophrenic twist (only that which can be quantified counts); and the failure by crucial partners to live up to the requirements of their burden of office in circumstances when disloyalty considerably enfeebles the possibility of effective collaborative governance and the chance for organizations to succeed. Part III suggests that it is not impossible to get rid of the blinders preventing the adoption of more synoptic approaches, and the exploration of more imaginative designs to repair our organizations and institutions. Ways to deal with the challenges facing the Canadian socio-economy are hinted at, and the work of a successful social architect showcased. The conclusion makes the case for an approach that is both synoptic and guided by reasonableness - against the dogmas of disciplines and skimpy rationality.

Gouvernance colloborative - Un antimanuel

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