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Systems leadership: exceptional leadership for exceptional times: synthesis paper

by Leadership Centre | 2014

Distillation of key messages from an extensive study on systems leadership for children’s services. Reviews and builds on theory about leadership of systems, and is intended to be practically useful to those in leadership roles in public services. Covers three broad questions: What is systems leadership, in theory and in practice? What is special about […]

Keywords:
Collective leadership, Distributed leadership, Leadership development, Systems theory, Values base
Resource type:
Case studies, Scholarly research
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