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This report outlines findings from phase 2 of the evaluation of Systems Leadership – Local Vision, conducted by Bristol Leadership Centre on behalf of the Systems Leadership Steering Group. The report focusses on the outcomes and effects of the Local Vision projects in different localities and consider how local context enables or constrains the potential […]

The workshop was hosted at Bristol Business School on 3rd June 2015 The Leadership Centre, University of the West of England, and the Systems Leadership Steering Group brought together people and places involved in the Syste,s Leadership workstreams along with many other interested parties. The workshop had inputs from Keith Grint, Robin Hambleton and Joe Simpson. This […]

Personal account of the practical lessons the author has learned while using systems leadership approaches in UK public services.

Influential article differentiating between tame, wicked and critical problems, and associating these with management, leadership and command approaches to their solution. Wicked problems need us to go beyond internally coherent approaches and adopt so called ‘clumsy solutions’ that use the skills of ‘bricoleurs’ to pragmatically engage whatever comes to hand