Systems Leadership Is How You Lead When You’re Not in Charge Debbie Sorkin

Systems Leadership is about how you lead across boundaries – departmental, organisational or sector.

It’s how you lead when you’re not in charge, and you need to influence others rather than pull a management lever.

It describes the way you need to work when you face large, complex, difficult and seemingly intractable problems; where you need to juggle multiple uncertainties; where no one person or organisation can find or organise the solution on their own; where everyone is grappling with how to make resources meet demand which is outstripping them; and where the way forward therefore lies in involving as many people’s energies, ideas, talents and expertise as possible.

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