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Women leaders – just what the doctor ordered

by Leadership Centre | 1st December 2015

Women have been proven to be very effective system leaders, which is exactly what the NHS needs. A few weeks ago, I went to the launch of HSJ’s Women Leaders Network. It was notable that the discussion at the event focused almost wholly on what issues we should concentrate on and what we should do. […]

Systems Leadership Workshop : Beyond Boundaries

by Leadership Centre | 2015

The workshop was hosted at Bristol Business School on 3rd June 2015 The Leadership Centre, University of the West of England, and the Systems Leadership Steering Group brought together people and places involved in the Syste,s Leadership workstreams along with many other interested parties. The workshop had inputs from Keith Grint, Robin Hambleton and Joe Simpson. This […]

Keywords:: Adaptive leadership, Clumsy solutions, Complexity, Distributed leadership, whole-system, Wicked issues

Resource type:: General information

Formats:: Downloadable documents

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 […]