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  1. The leadership challenges of wicked problems

  • Prof. Keith Grint
• 54 min
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  • Prof. Yiannis Gabriel
• 32 min
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  • Prof. John Burgoyne
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• 46 min
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  • Prof. Adrian Furnham
• 40 min
  6. Women in the labyrinth of leadership

  • Dr. Linda L. Carli
• 33 min
  7. The aesthetics of leadership

  • Dr. Donna Ladkin
• 38 min
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  • Prof. Andrew Kakabadse
• 40 min
  9. Complexity leadership: leadership for a changed world

  • Prof. Mary Uhl-Bien
  • Dr. Michael Arena
• 54 min
  10. The ethical challenges of leadership

  • Prof. Joanne B. Ciulla

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1. Introduction
2. Talk outline
3. The NHS: 25 years of change
4. Minister of defense
5. Chiefs of the Defense Staff
6. Chief of the General Staff 1964-2009
7. First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
8. Chief of the Air Staff
9. Drowning in the waves of change
10. Top ten critical change issues
11. 75% of change programmes fail in their own terms
12. The problem with change
13. Critical problems: commander
14. Omnipotent and omniscient commanders
15. Tame problems: management
16. Management as a science
17. Wicked problems have no simple solution
18. Leaders as wheelwrights: leadership as an art
19. Differentiating authority (1)
20. Differentiating authority (2)
21. Problems and power
22. Power and compliance
23. Addressing wicked problems (1)
24. Four primary ways of organizing social life
25. Elegant solutions
26. Argument and the limits of elegant logic
27. Elegant solutions don't solve wicked problems
28. Hierarchy
29. Egalitarianism
30. Group think and peer pressure as regressive
31. Addressing wicked problems (2)
32. Clumsy solutions
33. Elegant solutions and wicked problems
34. Elegant solutions to global warming
35. Clumsy solution to global warming
36. Wicked problems require bricoleurs
37. Adopt the role of the bricoleur
38. Individualists
39. Questions not answers
40. Reflection not reaction
41. Empathy not egotism
42. Egalitarians
43. Comparing random and scale-free distribution
44. Collective intelligence not individual genius
45. Positive deviance not negative acquiescence
46. Positive deviance: malnourishment in Vietnam
47. Community of fate not a fatalist community
48. Hierarchists
49. Relationships not structures
50. Destructive consent
51. Sloan's dilemma
52. Destructive consent and constructive dissent
53. The extraordinarization of the mundane
54. Critical learning points
55. Conclusion
56. 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

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Series:

• Managing and Leading People

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Publication History

• Published on July 28, 2010