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Leadership in the age of complexity

by Leadership Centre | 2015

The authors argue that the time for ‘heroic leaders’ is over, as they cannot  give us solutions to the challenges societies face. Heroic leadership rests on the illusion that someone can be in control. Yet we live in a world of complex systems that are inherently uncontrollable. The solution lies in mobilising the hearts and minds of everyone in […]

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Collective leadership, Heroic leaders, Systems theory
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The systems innovator: why successful innovation goes beyond products

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Paper explaining why systems innovation will become the most important focus for companies and governments, cities and societies. In the last decade there has been a growing focus on innovation in products and services as the source of competitive advantage. The author argues that in the coming decades the focus will shift towards the innovation […]

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Systems theory
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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.  

Keywords:
Collective leadership, Cultural change, Distributed leadership, Systems theory
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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

As in football, so in systems leadership…

by Leadership Centre | 14th March 2015

Systems thinking is applicable in all walks of life and is the basic stuff of leadership. Here are our top ten systems thinking tips, with a bit of a footie inflection…