Systems leadership for effective services
by Leadership Centre | 2015
Thinkpiece summarising the key features of a systems leadership and how it relates to the role of Directors of Children’s Services in England. Makes connections with both the education and healthcare systems, and describes how these public services are all beginning to recognise the centrality of systems approaches.
- Resource type:
- General information
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- 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
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- Downloadable documents
Anyone can be a systems leader
by Leadership Centre | 22nd March 2015
Systems leadership isn’t just for chief executives and senior managers everyone has an equal role to play in achieving change
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
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- Downloadable documents