Encouraging Systems Change

It isn’t that reports, policies, pilots and outcomes are bad things. It is that systems change doesn’t occur by focusing on these things in isolation.

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