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RESOURCE LIBRARY

This resource library contains links to information about the principles and practice of
systems leadership, with focus on its applicability to public services.
The focus is on resources from the UK, with a few international examples.
The listing is alphabetical by title.
Browse by keyword, information type or resource format.
Please contact us with details of any additional resources you think we should include.

System leadership: lessons and learning from AQuA’s Integrated Care Discovery Communities

by Alex Braddell | 2015

Paper that draws on three years’ development work with leaders in healthcare systems in north-west England to identify the skills, knowledge and behaviours required of new system leaders, and to learn from systems attempting to combine strong organisational leadership with collaborative system-level leadership approaches.

Keywords:
Health care, Leadership development, Systems theory
Resource type:
Scholarly research
Formats:
Downloadable documents

thinkpurpose

by Alex Braddell | 2015

A blog about systems thinking. The author says ‘It is about the onion patch and doing guerrilla systems thinking…this is about ME doing it, an amateur.‘

Keywords:
Systems theory
Resource type:
Opinion pieces
Formats:
Online articles

Donella Meadows Institute

by Alex Braddell | 2015

Mini-directory of useful concepts, frameworks and tools from the Donella Meadows Institute (mission: ‘to bring economic, social and environmental systems into closer harmony with the realities of a finite planet and a globally powerful human race by using the disciplines of systems thinking, system dynamics, and collaborative learning’)

Keywords:
Systems theory
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Resource centres

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

by Alex Braddell | 2015

Article by Dr. Donella H. Meadows (influential systems thinker and principal author of The Limits to Growth 1972) about how systems work and how we can manipulate them to create the most change: ‘leverage points [are] places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in […]

Keywords:
Systems theory
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Online articles

Integration and the Better Care Fund

by Alex Braddell | 2015

The Better Care Fund is one of a number of initiatives supporting the integration of care and support services in England. This resource provides information on the key national programmes for health and wellbeing boards, local authorities and their partners in the health and voluntary sectors.

Keywords:
Service integration
Resource type:
Development programmes
Formats:
Downloadable documents