Pathologies de gouvernance : essais de technologie sociale

"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

This book explores the thinking of Canadian federal public service senior executives through conversations. The transformation of the environment and of the institutional order has created quite a challenge: maintaining some sort of adequacy between these evolving realities and the frames of reference in use by public sector executives. Complexity is often nothing more than a name for a new order calling for a new frame of reference, and the reluctance to abandon old conceptual frameworks is often responsible for fundamental learning disabilities. 
Through a series of conversations with Canadian federal senior executives about more and more daunting problems - from coping with an evolving context, to engaging intelligently with a new modus operandi, to trying to nudge and tweak programs in order to correct toxic pathologies, to reframing perceptions and redesigning organizations to meet the new challenges-weaknesses of the capabilities of the Canadian federal executives to respond to current challenges were revealed, and suggestions made about ways to kick start a process of refurbishment of these capabilities.This book explores the thinking of Canadian federal public service senior executives through conversations. The transformation of the environment and of the institutional order has created quite a challenge: maintaining some sort of adequacy between these evolving realities and the frames of reference in use by public sector executives. Complexity is often nothing more than a name for a new order calling for a new frame of reference, and the reluctance to abandon old conceptual frameworks is often responsible for fundamental learning disabilities. 
Through a series of conversations with Canadian federal senior executives about more and more daunting problems - from coping with an evolving context, to engaging intelligently with a new modus operandi, to trying to nudge and tweak programs in order to correct toxic pathologies, to reframing perceptions and redesigning organizations to meet the new challenges-weaknesses of the capabilities of the Canadian federal executives to respond to current challenges were revealed, and suggestions made about ways to kick start a process of refurbishment of these capabilities.

Probing the Bureaucratic Mind

Epistémologie et économie de la relation

This short book throws some light on the modern-day pathologies that are crippling the productivity, resilience, innovation and survival of our private, public and social organizations, and therefore of our standard of living. It probes the proximate sources of dysfunction at five interfaces: between the organization and its employees (x-inefficiency), its value chain upstream (escaping fault), its socio-physical environment (externalities), its governance regime (hijacking by certain groups), and its ethical context (moral vacancy). Toxicities at these five interfaces are interrelated and moral vacancy is of central importance in this complex of relationships that may be the source of something like two-thirds to three-quarters of the observed waste. Our inquiry, built around the Detox Prism, gauges the toxicity at these five interfaces, probes their sources, and suggests useful families of design repairs based on a mix of mechanisms of practical use in the different sectors. This detox perspective is based on a systematic effort to lift both analysts and practitioners with the skyhook of a crane in order to broaden their outlook, to lengthen their time horizon, and to help them escape from mental prisons to inspire effective and practical design thinking.

Through the Detox Prism - Exploring Organizational Failures and Design Responses

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

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.

Unusual Suspects

" Les citoyens comme les investisseurs et les parties prenantes ont été immergés pendant si longtemps dans un univers de gouvernement -c'est à dire une situation où au sommet se trouvait un potentat ayant réussi à faire croire qu'il avait toute la connaissance, tout le pouvoir et toute l'information pour assurer la gouverne- qu'ils en sont arrivés à croire qu'ils avaient une " vocation de gouvernés " et à perdre eux-mêmes la notion qu'ils étaient des producteurs de gouvernance eux-mêmes. Cette paresse, cette indolence et ce refus de se prendre en main sont encore omniprésents. Voilà qui explique le blocage mental auquel fait face la notion de gouvernance. Ce blocage n'est pas innocent. Il révèle un état d'esprit, une sorte de servitude volontaire dans laquelle on se complaît. Le caractère subversif de la notion de gouvernance vient du fait qu'elle sonne le réveil, qu'elle est un appel aux armes, si l'on peut dire. Pas moyen de penser gouvernance sans penser au fardeau de la charge, à l'obligation de s'impliquer et de participer, aux devoirs que chacun a d'être un producteur de gouvernance, de contribuer à la gouverne de l'entreprise, de l'organisation, du pays. " Cet ouvrage est donc un appel à l'engagement, à la responsabilité, à la participation au " multilogue " social, requis par une socioéconomie dont la structure hiérarchisée et centralisée s'est effritée au fur et à mesure que le monde s'est ouvert, que l'information s'est diffusée et que les compétences se sont multipliées. Illustrant ces processus par plusieurs exemples empruntés à divers domaines de l'histoire canadienne récente, l'auteur montre à la fois la gouvernance distribuée qui est à l'œuvre dans le monde où nous vivons et les résistances que nos façons de penser traditionnelles lui opposent.

Gouvernance : une invitation à la subversion

This book revisits the tainted blood tragedy that Canada experienced in the latter part of the 20th century. It presents an argument in brief about the tragedy being the result of a cascade of pathologies of governance. Then it challenges the conventional wisdom and its explanation boiling down to four ill-founded accusations. After proposing a systemic reconstruction of the tragedy, it develops some responses to the systemic governance failures. The conclusion takes stock of the modest progress in the repairs of the toxic system in place, and the postface focuses on the demise of critical thinking as a fundamental source of the crisis and on a need to refurbish critical thinking if advances are to be expected in what remains a work in progress. This book revisits the tainted blood tragedy that Canada experienced in the latter part of the 20th century. It presents an argument in brief about the tragedy being the result of a cascade of pathologies of governance. Then it challenges the conventional wisdom and its explanation boiling down to four ill-founded accusations. After proposing a systemic reconstruction of the tragedy, it develops some responses to the systemic governance failures. The conclusion takes stock of the modest progress in the repairs of the toxic system in place, and the postface focuses on the demise of critical thinking as a fundamental source of the crisis and on a need to refurbish critical thinking if advances are to be expected in what remains a work in progress.

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