BROWSE

Extensive suite of research reports on the theory and practice of systems leadership, commissioned by the Virtual Staff College. Includes a synthesis paper, a literature review, four international papers as well as a range of interviews and case studies with UK systems leaders.

Collates more than 100 articles and research papers about complex adaptive systems thinking

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 […]

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