At the Leadership Centre, we have been seeing for some time now that extreme financial pressures for the sector has created negative effects.  These effects vary from council to council, but there are some common threads – the retreat into silos, the gaps between...

Local Government Reform for the purpose for devolution is upon us. Experience of working in and with mayoral combined and mayoral combined county authorities is providing much useful learning. Here are just some reflections for those now in the throes. An MSA is not...

I’m sitting on a train out of London, for the penultimate time, before I head to New Zealand to become the CEO of Wellington City Council, and the phone pings. It’s a trusted colleague…will you write an article about leadership under pressure before you go…pleassee??...