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1. The leadership challenges of wicked problems
- Prof. Keith Grint
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2. Leadership and the unconscious
- Prof. Yiannis Gabriel
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3. An overview and history of leadership and leadership development
- Prof. John Burgoyne
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5. Sweet dreams and nightmares: learning from good and bad leaders
- Prof. Adrian Furnham
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6. Women in the labyrinth of leadership
- Dr. Linda L. Carli
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7. The aesthetics of leadership
- Dr. Donna Ladkin
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8. Leading the board: international survey
- Prof. Andrew Kakabadse
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9. Complexity leadership: leadership for a changed world
- Prof. Mary Uhl-Bien
- Dr. Michael Arena
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10. The ethical challenges of leadership
- Prof. Joanne B. Ciulla
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- Introduction
- Talk outline
- The NHS: 25 years of change
- Minister of defense
- Chiefs of the Defense Staff
- Chief of the General Staff 1964-2009
- First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
- Chief of the Air Staff
- Drowning in the waves of change
- Top ten critical change issues
- 75% of change programmes fail in their own terms
- The problem with change
- Critical problems: commander
- Omnipotent and omniscient commanders
- Tame problems: management
- Management as a science
- Wicked problems have no simple solution
- Leaders as wheelwrights: leadership as an art
- Differentiating authority (1)
- Differentiating authority (2)
- Problems and power
- Power and compliance
- Addressing wicked problems (1)
- Four primary ways of organizing social life
- Elegant solutions
- Argument and the limits of elegant logic
- Elegant solutions don't solve wicked problems
- Hierarchy
- Egalitarianism
- Group think and peer pressure as regressive
- Addressing wicked problems (2)
- Clumsy solutions
- Elegant solutions and wicked problems
- Elegant solutions to global warming
- Clumsy solution to global warming
- Wicked problems require bricoleurs
- Adopt the role of the bricoleur
- Individualists
- Questions not answers
- Reflection not reaction
- Empathy not egotism
- Egalitarians
- Comparing random and scale-free distribution
- Collective intelligence not individual genius
- Positive deviance not negative acquiescence
- Positive deviance: malnourishment in Vietnam
- Community of fate not a fatalist community
- Hierarchists
- Relationships not structures
- Destructive consent
- Sloan's dilemma
- Destructive consent and constructive dissent
- The extraordinarization of the mundane
- Critical learning points
- Conclusion
- Thank you
Topics Covered
- The Leadership Challenge of Wicked Problems
- The problem of change
- What kind of problem are you facing: Tame, Wicked or Critical?
- Elegant solutions to Tame & Critical Problems
- Why Elegant Solutions don't resolve
- Wicked Problems
- Why Clumsy Solutions to Wicked Problems might work
Talk Citation
Grint, K. (2010, July 28). The leadership challenges of wicked problems [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 11, 2021, from https://hstalks.com/bm/1775/.Publication History
The leadership challenges of wicked problems
Published on July 28, 2010
58 min