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- Breaks the mould by accepting and working with complexity rather than trying to impose control
- Explores the prospect of social learning for complexity in a highly practical way by looking at leadership through the lens of the Systems Sciences
- Supports collective sensemaking for the common good at the level of local governance (rather than the more usual predictive approach)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
—Gareth Morgan, Author of Images of Organization
“While other authors have offered general principles of systemic leadership or given readers single approaches, Hobbs is much more ambitious: she brings together diverse, well-tested theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to provide today's leaders with a multifaceted resource that can aid them in thinking systemically. In this respect, her book is a significant advance on previous offerings, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to leaders, aspiring leaders and leadership academics around the world.”
—Gerald Midgley, University of Hull, UK
“This is an impressive and innovative work that draws together the disparate strands of complexity theory, systems thinking and operational research to build an adaptive social learning approach for local governance, helping to shift it from a service-led to systemic-deliberative model. This is essential reading for local government actors, students of local policy and for the public policy generalist.”
—Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK
Addressing matters of complexity systemically rather than mechanistically is now an ethical and practical paradigm-changing challenge for public policy. This optimistic book explores how action could be led in a joined-up way, signposting resources to thinking differently. Attention is paid to leading the design of adaptive social learning around what matters, re-connecting with public purpose to enable tailoring towards contemporary needs and constraints. Relevant to postgraduates, academics, local government managers, curious practitioners and the wider public,private and third sectors where there is interest in interpreting leadership via the cognitive capabilities of Systems Science.
Keywords
- local government
- beyond the mechanistic paradigm
- innovation
- collaboration
- leadership
- complexity
- System Failure
- thinking differently
- collaborative learning
- assumptions
- wider context
- participation
- Vanguard
- transformation
- social learning
- transdisciplinarity
- social science
- emergent
- systemic leadership
- creative
Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for Systems Studies, Hull University Business School, Cumbria, UK
Catherine Hobbs
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Systemic Leadership for Local Governance
Book Subtitle: Tapping the Resource Within
Authors: Catherine Hobbs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-08280-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08279-6Published: 07 February 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42009-3Published: 22 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-08280-2Published: 29 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 204
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Political Leadership, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics, Public Administration