we like!

This is our page to celebrate things that we think are interesting, important or just worthy of mention!

Please nominate any suggestions for the page to us at info@hopestreetcentre.com.

Policy

Complexity and Public Policy: Robert Geyer and Samir Rihani succeed in producing a clear and highly relevant book that is a must-read for any public sector leadership; we think it should be compulsory reading for all who seek to innovate and transform their Practice.

 

 

Do you know the difference between a tame and a wicked problem?  If you would like to hear the authors present their ideas at our next seminar contact us at info@hopestreetcentre.com.

 

Policy articles by Paul Corrigan: Here is an example, always worth a read.

 

 

Partners

TPP Law :  Creating Partnerships for Public Services

 

Potent6 : Inspiring Leaders

 

 

Social Enterprise

Over the last six years we have worked with many social enterprises in our sector; here are some useful links, resources and Enterprises:

 

Salford Health Matters :  Changing Primary Care

 

Independent Midwives UK :  Changing Midwifery

 

North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus and Tukes :  Changing Mental Health and Changing Lives

 

Blackburne House :  Transforming Women's Lives

 

 

For more information on funding sources see SocialInvestmentBusiness.org

 

 

Well Being

Richard Layard’s book, Happiness Lessons from a New Science, focuses on the evidence and health economics of well being and is food for thought in the way we manage our mental health and primary care services.  We like to think that this will change things; the book gives the compelling public health costs of poor mental health and well being and will be of interest to all who work with patients and people (and to all humans...)

 

See also: The Action for Happiness Manifesto. Hope Street Centre has signed up already.

 

 

We like Edward Monkton’s Pig of Happiness Film and admire the journey that Edward Monkton has shared about his journey with depression, as described in the Times.

 

 

Roger Steare’s ethicability work

...which can be accessed at his web site, with ethicability defined as ‘how to define what’s’ right and find the courage to do it....highly relevant to all concerned with improving public services, its all about who we are and what we do. We think that anyone can make a difference and that everyone should try...

 

On his site you can access take Roger Steare’s ethicability® Moral Character Profile test to find out:

 

• what your moral values are

• how you prefer to make difficult ethical decisions

• how you can use these insights to learn how to make better decisions in your everyday life

 

 

Liverpool

Our market is national, but we definitely love our home city. Liverpool.  We love its vibrancy and creativity, and our lovely location next to the Metropolitan cathedral.  For the real picture of Liverpool, watch the DVD Passport to Liverpool as seen on BBC and see VisitLiverpool.com. 

Art

We miss the Superlambananas in Liverpool!  We arrived in the office one day to find that the Mayor had taken all of the Superlambananas away, including the one that lived outside our office.  Beware, London, next they'll come for the Elephants...

 

We like... Liverpool, City of Radicals 2011: Rooted in the Liverpool experience, the scope of the year will aim to go beyond the local, connecting to the global and engaging with current thinking of radicals from around the world.

 

 

Poetry

Don't forget poetry!  Any nominations?  Here's one to start you off...

 

A Sane Revolution

If you make a revolution, make it for fun,

don't make it in ghastly seriousness,

don't do it in deadly earnest,

do it for fun.

 

Don't do it because you hate people,

do it just to spit in their eye.

 

Don't do it for the money,

do it and be damned to the money.

 

Don't do it for equality,

do it because we've got too much equality

and it would be fun to upset the apple-cart

and see which way the apples would go a-rolling.

 

Don't do it for the working classes.

Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracies on our own

and kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.

 

Don't do it, anyhow, for international Labour.

Labour is the one thing a man has had too much of.

Let's abolish labour, let's have done with labouring!

Work can be fun, and men can enjoy it; then it's not labour.

Let's have it so! Let's make a revolution for fun! 

 

- DH Lawrence