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Article arguing that local councils and NHS services in England need to unite around shared objectives that address the most difficult issues confronting them

Article examining the role that regulators could have in promoting systems leadership in the NHS

The author suggest that the concept of ‘systems being’ is ‘concerned with linking head, heart and hands. The expression of systems being is an integration of our full human capacities. It involves rationality with reverence to the mystery of life, listening beyond words, sensing with our whole being, and expressing our authentic self in every moment of […]

Commentary on landmark article on leadership by Ronald Heifetz and Donald Laurie, published in January 1997. Introduces the breakthrough concept of adaptive change—the sort of change that occurs when people and organizations are forced to adjust to a radically altered environment— and challenges the traditional understanding of the leader-follower relationship. The HBR article is available […]

The author argues that the UK government, whatever its political persuasion, will have to support collaborative working across systems. Existing learning from systems leadership initiatives to date across public services needs to be banked and shared so that it can move towards the mainstream.