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© Public Policy and Administration SAGE Publications Ltd Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore 0952-0767 200804 23(2) 215–221 Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture Sir Hugh Orde Chief Constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland There is a serious question around do we, as leaders in the public sector, have the confidence – and do we feel we have sufficient freedom – to act quickly when the blame/liability culture tends to mitigate against professional instinct, common sense and sensible risk taking, which are, in my view, critical skills necessary to deliver in our various worlds. The ability to display 20/20 vision from the comfort of some post-event review in the sanitised legal or quasi-legal world in which most experts reside, does little to encourage our leaders at all levels to make split second life and death decisions whilst operating with, at best, limited information but, more often, with conflict- ing or misleading information. In other words, I believe many decisions are now being fettered as people make them with at least one side of their brain trying to second guess the most negative outcome of their decision that may be subject to some form of review the follow- ing week, year
Public Policy and Administration – SAGE
Published: Apr 1, 2008
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