Leadership

Picking the right civil service CEO is important. But any candidate will encounter the job's structural challenges.

Malcolm Stirling, Business Consultant, Monster Worldwide Ltd

Appointments, job changes and exits among senior civil servants and key figures in the wider public service

The Veterinary Medicines Directorate saw its people survey score for management visibility rise by 12 points in a year. Its programme strategy manager David Lewsey explains how he did it

Civil service organisations must be agile to succeed – but they’re bound in chains of hierarchy and deference, argues Robin Ryde

Sailing into uncharted waters, the civil service has no rules on how to help the coalition parties prepare for an election.

The government’s chief operating officer Stephen Kelly has today announced he will leave the civil service in November to become the chief executive of business software firm Sage Group.

After several bruising years, civil servants need the support and funds to achieve ministers’ goals – or the recovery could prompt an exodus 

John Hirst, chief executive of the Met Office, is leaving the civil service in September after seven years in the role.

Too many organisational cultures push clever people into doing daft things. The solutions start at the top.

As the search begins for a new head of the civil service, read the last interview by incumbent Sir Bob Kerslake – interviewed with the new titular head of the civil service Sir Jeremy Heywood. Words by Matt Ross; picture by Mark Weeks

The Cabinet Office has made clear that its new chief executive will require substantial experience as a top business person, ruling out the vast majority of serving civil servants.