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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.
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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

Joined up care in action

by Leadership Centre | 2014

Global map showing range of international case studies of integrated care in action

Keywords:
Health care, Service integration
Resource type:
Case studies
Formats:
Online multimedia

North West London integration toolkit

by Leadership Centre | 2014

Thirty organisations, including NHS, local authorities and private providers, across eight boroughs in NW London in a joint initiative to provide GP-coordinated integrated health and social care services; the Integration Toolkit is a website with sections on approach, rationale, progress and lessons learned

Keywords:
General practitioners, Health care, Service integration, Social care
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Organisational websites

Integrated working: step by step

by Leadership Centre | 2014

Shared document system produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Includes a series of questions about strategic approaches to health and social care service integration

Keywords:
Health care, Service integration, Social care
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Online multimedia

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