One summer read (still reading) that has been oh-so-good is Nina Holm Vohnsen's The Absurdity of Bureaucracy: How Implementation Works. If you work in government, you may appreciate it. Here's some tweets for your enjoyment.
Premise of the book: an ethnographic portrayal of the Danish labor market system and a randomized control trial (Active-Back Sooner) conceived by the Danish Min of Employment in the fall of 2008.
Nov 9, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
So at last year's global SD conference, I theorized service design standards as a form of network power (Castells).
"Network power can be understood as the standards or protocols of communication that determine the rules to be accepted once in the network." 1/n #fwd50
They are the rules of inclusion.
You may be able to join the club, be a member of the club, but this club has rules.
And the rules matter, because they limit what can be done in the network. 2/n