Library
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Vision and Leadership
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This short pamphlet outlines a strategy for emerging from the current crisis stronger, based on four lessons; survival, generating fresh insight, maintaining the will to act and persevere and hope. It is a short course into pioneering the vision to invest in the future rather than prop up the past, and into the confidence to translate that vision into action.
This report outlines how organisations can face up to the challenging world of complexity, rapid change and uncertainty. The International Futures Forum describes how identity, morality, cultural coherence and social stability are unravelling due to the scale of interconnectivity and interdependence – this is a conceptual emergency. This report describes ten strategies for responding to today’s conceptual emergency.
This research by the Institute of Leadership Management provides an in-depth understanding of the anxieties and challenges facing public sector managers today. It reveals some clear findings for managers to consider in the coming months and years; including commitment to service, dealing with budget cuts, opportunity to innovate, motivating staff and effective targets.
This paper explores some of the myths about leadership in the public sector that can impede effective delivery and effective leadership at all levels. It also outlines the emerging realities that leaders need to face in this age of austerity.
This article outlines four key functions that collectively define a successful role for the CEO in a transformation; making the transformation meaningful, role-modelling desired mind-sets and behaviour, building a strong and committed top team and relentlessly pursuing impact. The article provides guidance on how to achieve each function.
