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Councils and NHS services must work together to share risks and savings

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Article arguing that local councils and NHS services in England need to unite around shared objectives that address the most difficult issues confronting them

Keywords:
Health care, Prevention, Public services, Service integration, Social care, Wellbeing
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General information
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What impact do regulators have on the NHS?

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Article examining the role that regulators could have in promoting systems leadership in the NHS

Keywords:
Cultural change, Health care, Service integration
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General information
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From systems thinking to systems being

by Leadership Centre | 2015

The author suggest that the concept of ‘systems being’ is ‘concerned with linking head, heart and hands. The expression of systems being is an integration of our full human capacities. It involves rationality with reverence to the mystery of life, listening beyond words, sensing with our whole being, and expressing our authentic self in every moment of […]

Keywords:
Holism
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Opinion pieces
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The work of leadership

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Commentary on landmark article on leadership by Ronald Heifetz and Donald Laurie, published in January 1997. Introduces the breakthrough concept of adaptive change—the sort of change that occurs when people and organizations are forced to adjust to a radically altered environment— and challenges the traditional understanding of the leader-follower relationship. The HBR article is available […]

Keywords:
Adaptive leadership, Complexity, Leadership development, Systems theory
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General information
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Systems leadership – now we need to bank the learning

by Leadership Centre | 2015

The author argues that the UK government, whatever its political persuasion, will have to support collaborative working across systems. Existing learning from systems leadership initiatives to date across public services needs to be banked and shared so that it can move towards the mainstream.

Keywords:
Complexity, Service integration, Wicked issues
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General information
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Online articles