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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

Systems leadership: towards a definition – and beyond – An article by John Atkinson

by Leadership Centre | 1st May 2015

Systems leadership means working beyond organisational boundaries to address issues of mutual concern. This raises challenging questions about the nature of society, what we choose to do together and thus the role and function of public services

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

Resource type:: General information

Formats:: Online articles

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.