Learning from Covid-19 – leadership for the 21st Century
The perspective someone uses when viewing the pandemic has a major influence on what they are prepared to act on, and how they will act.
Tag: systems leadership
Living Systems Leadership
For this reason I rejected the notion of a competence model of leadership. When head of a national leadership centre my refusal to adopt such a model or necessarily comply with others’ models drew sharp
Seeing Into Systems
For all of us, our first work with new systems can seem daunting. Our existing networks and knowledge may be helpful but insufficient in this new domain. We must work out what to do, who
Systems Leadership – Feeling Systems
At its best, systems leadership seems to exhibit an almost magical sense of the possible. Where people are locked in apparently intractable complexity, systems leadership seems to open up a new way through the mess.
Characteristics of Systems Leadership
The reality is that leadership through large, complex and politically contested issues can be very tough on the people involved. It challenges our perception as to what is for the best, and how best to
Inside Total Place
The most basic of the connections was at the very local level, as people who worked with particular families or individuals made new relationships or refocused existing ones. We also connected places who were running
John Atkinson introducing systems leadership
Systems leadership has come to mean working beyond organisational boundaries to address issues of mutual concern. This raises questions that challenge many assumptions about how to address issues that are of interest beyond the individual.
What is systems leadership?
The challenges that require you to work together are complex. You don’t ‘deliver’ a change in global quality standards and you don’t ‘deliver’ a healthier or wealthier population. Lots of people will need to change
Vive la revolution!
I was fortunate to be trained in leadership for a year at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Towards the end, I was allowed to run the ‘enemy’ in key exercises. I rather enjoyed it; I
And who are you?
Does how you respond get conditioned by who asks the question? In what circumstances? In what environment? Do you always answer exactly the same or do you change it? Understanding and forming identity is a
The ethics of systems leadership
When you consult to a system who is your client? How do you know if you are doing the right thing? What constitutes doing good here and who decides? You cannot please everyone all the
Complexity
Complex problems may not have solutions. You can maybe make them better or worse, but they remain unresolved and stubbornly recalcitrant. So we add another expert solution and before we know it we are entangled
Cheshire Cat Grins
The reason we don’t truly become Change Makers is that we don’t want to. We really want to preserve things as they are, right up until the moment that they inevitably die.
Doomed to Failure
In a living system the clue is in the name. You have to ‘grow’ something. Something that infects the system and spreads through it such that each node or place in the system grows its
Bellinger: What is Systems Thinking?
An amusing and informative video on systems thinking from Gene Bellinger!