Embracing emergence: how collective impact addresses complexity
by Leadership Centre | 2015
Complex social problems cannot be solved by a single organization or by a simple recipe. This US article explores how the rules of interaction defined in a collective impact process put participants on a journey embracing collective vigilance, learning, and action.
- Keywords:
- Collective leadership, Complexity, Systems theory, Wicked issues
- Resource type:
- Case studies, General information
- Formats:
- Downloadable documents
How to lead and manage Better Care implementation
by Leadership Centre | 2015
Practical guide to help members of health and wellbeing boards involved in the UK Department of Health’s Better Care Fund projects. Contains sections on systems leadership and effecting wide-scale cultural change in healthcare organisations
- Keywords:
- Cultural change, Health care, Service integration, Wicked issues
- Resource type:
- Case studies, Tools and guidance
- Formats:
- Downloadable documents
Wicked problems and clumsy solutions: the role of leadership
by Leadership Centre | 2014
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
- Keywords:
- Clumsy solutions, Complexity, Cultural change, Leadership development, Systems theory, Wicked issues
- Resource type:
- Scholarly research
- Formats:
- Downloadable documents