Why Cabinet Exec won’t ‘poo in the pool’

If you hear any government officials talking about blue rivers in the coming days, it’s down to Google.

Steve Vaughan, the head of media monitoring at the Home Office, has just spent a week with Google to develop his digital skills. The reason we know this, is that he has written a government blog about it. In it, Vaughan reveals the 17 things he has learned from the experience.

While Steerpike dares not bore you with all the details, Vaughan does urge civil servants to refrain from being a ‘poo in the pool’ and instead try ‘jumping into the pool of creativity,’ as well as urging staff to ‘greenhouse your ideas’.

He goes so far as to advise government employees to play Paper, Scissor, Stone as it ‘can take shy retiring civil servants out of their comfort zones and lift sapping energy levels’…