Dan Honig
danhonig.bsky.social
Dan Honig
@danhonig.bsky.social
Trying to find the human in the everyday, and write about it. Mission Driven Bureaucrats are all around us - and can be on you shelf (DanHonig.info/missiondrivenbureaucrats). Work London & DC.
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📆 Join us online on 17 July, for a live discussion with the framework’s authors @danhonig.bsky.social and @jamestplunkett.bsky.social to discover how to successfully implement mission-driven approaches.

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June 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We argue in this @snfagora.bsky.social working paper this is because 'capacity' is not just technical - it is also relationships between citizen & the state. For more on the project (generously funded by
@ukri.org
via the Horizon 2020 ERC backstop), please see relationalstatecapacity.com. Thanks!
Relational State Capacity
relationalstatecapacity.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Of your many posts on many platforms, this is the one I most strongly agree with; sweet Lou deserves better. (I may be biased here by a now-lost photo of me sitting on his shoulders as a 3? yr old in the mid-80's)
January 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Other recent episodes of ePODstemology: @danhonig.bsky.social from UCL and Georgetown explains how we can get better public services:

www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...
Empowering mission driven bureaucrats to provide better public services - ePODstemology
In the UK, up to 80% of a social worker’s time can be spent filling out forms rather than helping the desperate people in their care. This is an example of what Dan Honig calls ‘management for complia...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Reminded me of this really insightful article from @danhonig.bsky.social on how we need to let public servants get on with doing their job samf.substack.com/p/how-labour...
How Labour can fix the public sector
Figuring out how to let the workforce do their job
samf.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Thanks so much, Edd!
September 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Love it! Thanks, Anthony. FWIW very open to being steered straight - where can an ignorant American get the best scone in London?
September 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Congrats, too, to President-elect Boakai and the Unity Party. I remember Boakai from 15 yrs ago as a good soul, with a sharp eye for talent. I hope it serves him, and all Liberians, well in the years to come.

NYT: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/w...

FPA: frontpageafricaonline.com/analysis/ana...

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November 18, 2023 at 12:11 PM