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Systems leadership for effective services

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Thinkpiece summarising the key features of a systems leadership and how it relates to the role of Directors of Children’s Services in England. Makes connections with both the education and healthcare systems, and describes how these public services are all beginning to recognise the centrality of systems approaches.  

Keywords:
Collective leadership, Cultural change, Distributed leadership, Systems theory
Resource type:
General information
Formats:
Downloadable documents

How to lead and manage Better Care implementation

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Practical guide to help members of health and wellbeing boards involved in the UK Department of Health’s Better Care Fund projects. Contains sections on systems leadership and effecting wide-scale cultural change in healthcare organisations

Keywords:
Cultural change, Health care, Service integration, Wicked issues
Resource type:
Case studies, Tools and guidance
Formats:
Downloadable documents

Anyone can be a systems leader

by Leadership Centre | 22nd March 2015

Systems leadership isn’t just for chief executives and senior managers everyone has an equal role to play in achieving change

Wicked problems and clumsy solutions: the role of leadership

by Leadership Centre | 2014

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  

Keywords:
Clumsy solutions, Complexity, Cultural change, Leadership development, Systems theory, Wicked issues
Resource type:
Scholarly research
Formats:
Downloadable documents