{"id":1004,"date":"2020-06-17T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2020-06-17T11:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:21:34","slug":"the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-systems-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-systems-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhetoric and Reality of Systems Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A talk by Professor Richard Bolden at The Future of Leadership conference hosted by Kings College, London.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Professor Richard Bolden was invited by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory\">Defence Science and Technology Laboratory<\/a> (an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence) to speak at a video conference on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/events\/potra-people-futures-community-of-interest-the-future-of-leadership-video-conference\">The Future of Leadership<\/a>\u2019, hosted by Kings College London on 22nd May. His presentation, titled \u2018The Rhetoric and Reality of Systems Leadership\u2019 summarised insights from his recent research in the NHS and public health to highlight key insights for public service leadership over the coming decades.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Systems Leadership?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSystems Leadership is about how you lead across boundaries departmental, organisational or sector. It\u2019s how you lead when you\u2019re 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\u2026\u201d<br>Sorkin, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the recorded conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LIL3A7-XQys.\">HERE<\/a> including Richard&#8217;s talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk by Professor Richard Bolden at The Future of Leadership conference hosted by Kings College, London. Professor Richard Bolden was invited by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence) to speak at a video conference on \u2018The Future of Leadership\u2019, hosted by Kings College London on 22nd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-systems-leadership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Rhetoric and Reality of Systems Leadership&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[16,97,144,442,441,49,381,405],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-business-school","category-bristol-leadership-and-change-centre","tag-leadership","tag-leadership-centre","tag-organisational-leadership","tag-systems-leadership","tag-the-future-of-leadership","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-bristol-business-school","tag-uwe-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/leadership-and-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}