{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6788c4b6bc4d37e16f4d6ae3/6788c4cfbc4d37e16f4d6ff6?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"043: Sir Michael Barber on the science of delivery in politics","description":"<p><br/>Returning from the Summer, this week I&apos;m talking to <a href='https://sirmichaelbarber.co.uk/'><b>Sir Michael Barber</b></a>, the man who Tony Blair appointed to create and then run his Delivery Unit at No. 10.<br/><br/>While not overt, there&apos;s lots of behavioural science going on here: creating repeatable routines, fear of and resistance to change, influencing and persuading intransigent individuals. A great part of Michael&apos;s work after all is understanding people, with all their biases and preconceptions, and then reorganising them.<br/><br/><b>Show notes</b></p><ul><li>What Scafell Pike walk teaches you about problem solving</li><li>Why did Tony Blair ask Michael to set up his Delivery Unit?</li><li>What was the civil service doing before the introduction of the Delivery Unit?</li><li>Changing real people’s lives in a very visible, meaningful way</li><li>How boring and radical government must hang together</li><li>Why delivery is like a soap opera as well as a documentary</li><li>The importance of a guiding coalition in government to make policy happen</li><li>Government by routine vs. by spasm</li><li>Buy-in is overrated, or why you don’t need it at the beginning</li><li>Reaching irreversibility</li><li>How intrusive press blurs the line between transparency and privacy</li><li>Excuses that ministers throw up to resist change</li><li>What Michael advised Boris Johnson in 2019</li><li>The next frontier in Delivery – using real-time data</li></ul><p><b>Subscribe for more </b><a href='https://aloadofbs.substack.com/'><b>here</b></a><b><br/>Click </b><a href='https://aloadofbs.substack.com/about'><b>here</b></a><b> to access rewards to power your brain<br/>Follow me on </b><a href='https://twitter.com/danielsjross'><b>Twitter</b></a></p>","author_name":"A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT"}