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	<title>Comments on: Government Department and CEO of the Year</title>
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		<title>By: kiwigunner</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840683</link>
		<dc:creator>kiwigunner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;by a panel of 22 high profile opinion shapers&quot;.*   NB – I was one of the 22 panelists.


hahahahahahahhahahahaha]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;by a panel of 22 high profile opinion shapers&#8221;.*   NB – I was one of the 22 panelists.</p>
<p>hahahahahahahhahahahaha</p>
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		<title>By: reid</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840290</link>
		<dc:creator>reid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a CEO does make a difference. Most often, the thing that makes a difference is attention to excellence and newsflash, that comes from institutional memory and current focus, not from what any CEO does. e.g. Auckland Grammar. Why is it such a good school? Is it because of John Morris? Sure, he&#039;s good, but was he the root cause or is it something else?

All I&#039;m saying is, I think awards that focused on which organisations focused best on achieving operational excellence, would be a better ranking of their relative merits. And AFAIK, there aren&#039;t any awards for doing that, and there should be. Lots of them, all the time, in both govt and private. The Deloitte&#039;s Fast 50 or whatever it is, is meaningless marketing pap as is usual from the big consultancies, how about some awards that have categories like fastest to market, best product/service, most efficient service delivery, all of that. That might actually say something relevant and generate debate and interest about what precisely the winners did to achieve it, which is what you want - to propagate those techniques into the wider community.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes a CEO does make a difference. Most often, the thing that makes a difference is attention to excellence and newsflash, that comes from institutional memory and current focus, not from what any CEO does. e.g. Auckland Grammar. Why is it such a good school? Is it because of John Morris? Sure, he&#8217;s good, but was he the root cause or is it something else?</p>
<p>All I&#8217;m saying is, I think awards that focused on which organisations focused best on achieving operational excellence, would be a better ranking of their relative merits. And AFAIK, there aren&#8217;t any awards for doing that, and there should be. Lots of them, all the time, in both govt and private. The Deloitte&#8217;s Fast 50 or whatever it is, is meaningless marketing pap as is usual from the big consultancies, how about some awards that have categories like fastest to market, best product/service, most efficient service delivery, all of that. That might actually say something relevant and generate debate and interest about what precisely the winners did to achieve it, which is what you want &#8211; to propagate those techniques into the wider community.</p>
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		<title>By: Dazzaman</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840257</link>
		<dc:creator>Dazzaman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hate to say it but I gotta agree with BWaV on this.  The idea of awarding govt. depts &amp; their CEO&#039;s is a bit perverse....like all bene&#039;s (ahem) they should just be grateful for their pay day.  Ha.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hate to say it but I gotta agree with BWaV on this.  The idea of awarding govt. depts &amp; their CEO&#8217;s is a bit perverse&#8230;.like all bene&#8217;s (ahem) they should just be grateful for their pay day.  Ha.</p>
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		<title>By: krazykiwi</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840242</link>
		<dc:creator>krazykiwi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If such an award was measured against departments that consistently kept their growth in spending to the same proportion of GDP ... then the trophy would have no names engraved on it. But let&#039;s not worry, just applaud loudly and keep borrowing]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If such an award was measured against departments that consistently kept their growth in spending to the same proportion of GDP &#8230; then the trophy would have no names engraved on it. But let&#8217;s not worry, just applaud loudly and keep borrowing</p>
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		<title>By: Viking2</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840231</link>
		<dc:creator>Viking2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hughes single handedly managed to destroy all the voluntary social agencies over the last 10 years. That makes him a good CEO. 
Not in a lot of peoples eyes. It makes him an arsehole and leaves many people who are unable to help themselves without the kind of volunteer help that took 20-30 years to build up.
Those agencies will be pleased to see the prick gone.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hughes single handedly managed to destroy all the voluntary social agencies over the last 10 years. That makes him a good CEO.<br />
Not in a lot of peoples eyes. It makes him an arsehole and leaves many people who are unable to help themselves without the kind of volunteer help that took 20-30 years to build up.<br />
Those agencies will be pleased to see the prick gone.</p>
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		<title>By: DT</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840207</link>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey DPF, any chance of putting the full list in for those of us without access to the Transtasman?  I&#039;m sure that it wouldn&#039;t be ripping Transtasman off as the meat will be in the commentaries.

Thanks.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey DPF, any chance of putting the full list in for those of us without access to the Transtasman?  I&#8217;m sure that it wouldn&#8217;t be ripping Transtasman off as the meat will be in the commentaries.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Black with a Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840115</link>
		<dc:creator>Black with a Vengeance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one dragged you anywhere Grendel you halfwit. 

Of course the only other excuse to turning a blind eye is to plead total ignorance eh Pete ? How truly blissful it must be in your world.

Don’t feed the trolls. But it&#039;s so hard not to adze. They seem so impoverished I can&#039;t help but fling a tasty morsel their way every so often.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one dragged you anywhere Grendel you halfwit. </p>
<p>Of course the only other excuse to turning a blind eye is to plead total ignorance eh Pete ? How truly blissful it must be in your world.</p>
<p>Don’t feed the trolls. But it&#8217;s so hard not to adze. They seem so impoverished I can&#8217;t help but fling a tasty morsel their way every so often.</p>
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		<title>By: adze</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840098</link>
		<dc:creator>adze</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t feed the trolls]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t feed the trolls</p>
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		<title>By: Grendel</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840095</link>
		<dc:creator>Grendel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[does anyone know what the hell moron with a vengeance is on about? i think he started an argument with himself and then just kind of dragged the rest of us in.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>does anyone know what the hell moron with a vengeance is on about? i think he started an argument with himself and then just kind of dragged the rest of us in.</p>
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		<title>By: Pete George</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840094</link>
		<dc:creator>Pete George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;silence is a tacit form of agreeance.&lt;/i&gt;

What if you haven&#039;t read it? If I don&#039;t read every post carefully and if I don&#039;t speak out if I think someone somewhere might feel offended by something I&#039;m evil?

If you have a problem with a comment highlight it, argue your case or report it, don&#039;t expect me or anyone else to do everything you want done for you. I don&#039;t have any idea what has offended you here, and I&#039;m not going to read back through all the comments and try and guess.

Swearing and personal abuse directed at someone in particular will usually get demerited if it&#039;s brought to DPF&#039;s attention. His blog, his rules. Don&#039;t try and blame me.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>silence is a tacit form of agreeance.</i></p>
<p>What if you haven&#8217;t read it? If I don&#8217;t read every post carefully and if I don&#8217;t speak out if I think someone somewhere might feel offended by something I&#8217;m evil?</p>
<p>If you have a problem with a comment highlight it, argue your case or report it, don&#8217;t expect me or anyone else to do everything you want done for you. I don&#8217;t have any idea what has offended you here, and I&#8217;m not going to read back through all the comments and try and guess.</p>
<p>Swearing and personal abuse directed at someone in particular will usually get demerited if it&#8217;s brought to DPF&#8217;s attention. His blog, his rules. Don&#8217;t try and blame me.</p>
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		<title>By: backster</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840092</link>
		<dc:creator>backster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where did Howard Broad place.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where did Howard Broad place.</p>
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		<title>By: Black with a Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840091</link>
		<dc:creator>Black with a Vengeance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not condoning anything here if I don’t “speak out”.

___________________________________________________________

silence is a tacit form of agreeance.

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing ...

let the racist jokes slide and don&#039;t punish the perpetrators sends what sort of message ?..that it&#039;s OK to be a racist fuckwit here ?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m not condoning anything here if I don’t “speak out”.</p>
<p>___________________________________________________________</p>
<p>silence is a tacit form of agreeance.</p>
<p>All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing &#8230;</p>
<p>let the racist jokes slide and don&#8217;t punish the perpetrators sends what sort of message ?..that it&#8217;s OK to be a racist fuckwit here ?</p>
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		<title>By: Pete George</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840087</link>
		<dc:creator>Pete George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;If you dont speak out and act against it you’re condoning it.&lt;/i&gt;

I sometimes do speak out against posts here - but your statement is nonsense. I don&#039;t read everything, and I don&#039;t take much notice of a lot if at a glance it doesn&#039;t interest me. I&#039;m not condoning anything here if I don&#039;t &quot;speak out&quot;.

If you think something warrants DPF&#039;s attention let him know, that&#039;s how it works here, joint responsibility. Read the top of the Demerits page.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>If you dont speak out and act against it you’re condoning it.</i></p>
<p>I sometimes do speak out against posts here &#8211; but your statement is nonsense. I don&#8217;t read everything, and I don&#8217;t take much notice of a lot if at a glance it doesn&#8217;t interest me. I&#8217;m not condoning anything here if I don&#8217;t &#8220;speak out&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you think something warrants DPF&#8217;s attention let him know, that&#8217;s how it works here, joint responsibility. Read the top of the Demerits page.</p>
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		<title>By: Black with a Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840080</link>
		<dc:creator>Black with a Vengeance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pity the racist bullshit is tolerated though eh Pete George ?

If you dont speak out and act against it you&#039;re condoning it. Much like the Maori MP&#039;s turning a blind eye to Destiny churchs homophobia and mysogyny.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pity the racist bullshit is tolerated though eh Pete George ?</p>
<p>If you dont speak out and act against it you&#8217;re condoning it. Much like the Maori MP&#8217;s turning a blind eye to Destiny churchs homophobia and mysogyny.</p>
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		<title>By: mikenmild</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840077</link>
		<dc:creator>mikenmild</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to the story eh, enough about the demerits.   Or should I say non-story?  Does enough else think it is ludicrous for some self-annointed panel of masturbators, sorry &#039;opinion shapers&#039;, to rank government departments and their CEs?  What does it actually mean?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to the story eh, enough about the demerits.   Or should I say non-story?  Does enough else think it is ludicrous for some self-annointed panel of masturbators, sorry &#8216;opinion shapers&#8217;, to rank government departments and their CEs?  What does it actually mean?</p>
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		<title>By: Pete George</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840076</link>
		<dc:creator>Pete George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;Quite selective with the demerit points aren’t we ?&lt;/i&gt;

Not really, when swearing personal abuse stuff like that is spotted it is usually pinged.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Quite selective with the demerit points aren’t we ?</i></p>
<p>Not really, when swearing personal abuse stuff like that is spotted it is usually pinged.</p>
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		<title>By: Black with a Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840074</link>
		<dc:creator>Black with a Vengeance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh the sheer fuckwittery of it all. Awards for top government CEO and not the DPF demerit system :)

As if the cash isn&#039;t enough or seeing the rewarding faces of the minions as they lovingly go about their daily tasks. 

Now theres an idea worthy of greater merit.  Awarded an accolade by the minons beneath you as opposed to high profile opinion shapers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh the sheer fuckwittery of it all. Awards for top government CEO and not the DPF demerit system <img src='http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>As if the cash isn&#8217;t enough or seeing the rewarding faces of the minions as they lovingly go about their daily tasks. </p>
<p>Now theres an idea worthy of greater merit.  Awarded an accolade by the minons beneath you as opposed to high profile opinion shapers.</p>
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		<title>By: Falafulu Fisi</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840068</link>
		<dc:creator>Falafulu Fisi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black with Vengeance, if you use the word  &lt;i&gt;fuckwit&lt;/i&gt;, DPF will dish out demerit points.  Lookup on the demerit list, in which I&#039;ve been given 10  demerit points for using  &lt;i&gt;fuckwit&lt;/i&gt; and that was from last year.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Black with Vengeance, if you use the word  <i>fuckwit</i>, DPF will dish out demerit points.  Lookup on the demerit list, in which I&#8217;ve been given 10  demerit points for using  <i>fuckwit</i> and that was from last year.</p>
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		<title>By: Black with a Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840064</link>
		<dc:creator>Black with a Vengeance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite selective with the demerit points aren&#039;t we ?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quite selective with the demerit points aren&#8217;t we ?</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Readman</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/government_department_and_ceo_of_the_year.html/comment-page-1#comment-840057</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Readman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay!  Thank god their won&#039;t be a Canadian Commissioner of Inland Revenue!  As a half Canadian, it was really embarrasing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yay!  Thank god their won&#8217;t be a Canadian Commissioner of Inland Revenue!  As a half Canadian, it was really embarrasing.</p>
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