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Tackling the Wicked Challenge of Strategic Change

Author : Professor Longmore
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496982886
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Tackling the Wicked Challenge of Strategic Change written by Professor Longmore and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to make better sense of a long, complex, messy, change process through the stories of those who were involved. Over fifty participants were interviewed during the course of the study and their uniquely personal perspectives have been woven into a compelling story of organisational change. This book describes their ingenuity and effort in bringing about change that they and their organisation valued. Between 2009 and 2012, Southampton Solent University (UK) engaged in an unprecedented and highly complex strategic initiative which ran across the entire institution, its structures, processes and systems; it aimed to produce a fundamental shift in institutional culture. Such an all-embracing approach is rare in universities. This programme of organisational change is seen through the eyes of people who were immersed in the process. Their perspectives and feelings will resonate with anyone who has tried to bring about significant change in a university. Universities are inherently creative places but too often there is a pervasive inertia that prevents ideas from being turned into new and better practices. This programme aimed to create a culture of innovation. Conventional project planning techniques were deliberately avoided and replaced with an approach based on complexity theory, recognising that the process of change requires constant adaptation, acceptance of non-linear progress and subversion of conventional management discourse. Offering an unusual example from the higher education sector, this study is a distinctive contribution to the extensive literature on organisational change. Learning gained from participants is related to theories and research from this wider literature. The study proposes a holistic and integrated approach to change which might offer a more culturally relevant and sustainable model both for higher education and for those sectors of industry and commerce from which much change management practice has conventionally been drawn.

Tackling the Wicked Challenge of Strategic Change

Author : Pamela Baker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496982878
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Tackling the Wicked Challenge of Strategic Change written by Pamela Baker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to make better sense of a long, complex, messy, change process through the stories of those who were involved. Over fifty participants were interviewed during the course of the study and their uniquely personal perspectives have been woven into a compelling story of organisational change. This book describes their ingenuity and effort in bringing about change that they and their organisation valued. Between 2009 and 2012, Southampton Solent University (UK) engaged in an unprecedented and highly complex strategic initiative which ran across the entire institution, its structures, processes and systems; it aimed to produce a fundamental shift in institutional culture. Such an all-embracing approach is rare in universities. This programme of organisational change is seen through the eyes of people who were immersed in the process. Their perspectives and feelings will resonate with anyone who has tried to bring about significant change in a university. Universities are inherently creative places but too often there is a pervasive inertia that prevents ideas from being turned into new and better practices. This programme aimed to create a culture of innovation. Conventional project planning techniques were deliberately avoided and replaced with an approach based on complexity theory, recognising that the process of change requires constant adaptation, acceptance of non-linear progress and subversion of conventional management discourse. Offering an unusual example from the higher education sector, this study is a distinctive contribution to the extensive literature on organisational change. Learning gained from participants is related to theories and research from this wider literature. The study proposes a holistic and integrated approach to change which might offer a more culturally relevant and sustainable model both for higher education and for those sectors of industry and commerce from which much change management practice has conventionally been drawn.

Leadership for Sustainability

Author : R. Bruce Hull
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831670
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Leadership for Sustainability written by R. Bruce Hull and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving today’s environmental and sustainability challenges requires more than expertise and technology. Effective solutions will require that we engage with other people, wrestle with difficult questions, and learn how to adapt and make confident decisions despite uncertainty. We need new approaches to leadership that empower professionals at all levels to tackle wicked problems and work towards sustainability. Leadership for Sustainability gives readers perspective and skills for promoting creative and collaborative solutions. Blending systems thinking approaches with leadership techniques, it offers dozens of strategies and specific practices that build on the foundation of three main skills: connecting, collaborating, and adapting. Inspiring case studies show how the book’s strategies and principles can be applied to diverse situations: Coordinating the activities of widely dispersed individuals and groups who may not even know they are connected, illustrated by the work of urban planners, local businesses, citizens, and other stakeholders advancing ambitious climate action goals via a Community Energy Plan in Arlington County, Virginia Collaborating with diverse stakeholders to span boundaries despite their differences of opinion, expertise, and culture, as illustrated by the bold actions of a social entrepreneur who transformed the global food service industry with the “plant-forward” movement Adapting to continuous change and confounding uncertainty, as a small nonprofit organization mobilizes partners to tackle poverty, water scarcity, sanitation, and climate change in rural India Readers will come away with a holistic understanding of how to lead from where they are by applying leadership principles and practices to a wide range of wicked situations. While the challenges we face are daunting, the authors argue that these situations present opportunities for creating a more just, healthy, and prosperous world.

New Strategies for Wicked Problems

Author : Edward P. Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870718939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book New Strategies for Wicked Problems written by Edward P. Weber and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "wicked problem" isn't one with an evil nature, but a problem that is impossible or difficult to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often hard to recognize. Classic examples of wicked problems include economic, environmental, and political issues. We now live in a world full of wicked problems, most of them urgent challenges calling out for creative, democratic, and effective solutions. Ed Weber, Denise Lach, and Brent Steel, of the Oregon State University School of Public Policy, solicited papers from a wide variety of accomplished scholars in the fields of science, politics, and policy to address this challenge. The resultant collection focuses on major contemporary environmental and natural resource policy issues, and proposes an assortment of alternative problem-solving methodologies to tackle such problems. New Strategies for Wicked Problems will appeal to scholars, students, and decision-makers wrestling with wicked problems and "post-normal" science settings beyond simply environmental and natural resource-based issues, while providing much needed guidance to policymakers, citizens, public managers, and other stakeholders.

Wicked Strategies

Author : John C. Camillus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144262406X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Strategies written by John C. Camillus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In business, some problems are so complex, intractable and threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” These problems appear to be unsolvable and they render traditional analytical tools of strategy virtually impotent. Wicked Strategies offers a comprehensive framework for identifying, responding to and profiting from wicked problems. John C. Camillus, drawing on detailed, real-life examples from companies across the globe, has skillfully woven together the analytical techniques, processes and organizational designs that will enable managers to navigate a disruptive marketplace. His feed-forward framework for fashioning wicked strategies empowers firms to presciently transform their business models before they are made obsolete by the competition. Wicked Strategies is a practical and evocative guide that demonstrates how business leaders can profitably capitalize on unknowable futures.

Tackling Wicked Problems

Author : John Harris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136531440
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Tackling Wicked Problems written by John Harris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to sustainable futures. Tackling Wicked Problems provides readers with a framework and practical examples that will guide the design and conduct of their own open-ended enquiries. In this approach, academic disciplines are combined with personal, local and strategic understanding and researchers are required to recognise multiple knowledge cultures, accept the inevitability of uncertainty, and clarify their own and others' ethical positions. The authors then comment on fifteen practical examples of how researchers have engaged with the opportunities and challenges of conducting transdisciplinary inquiries. The book gives those who are grappling with complex problems innovative methods of inquiry that will allow them to work collaboratively towards long-term solutions.

Inviting Leadership

Author : Daniel Mezick
Publisher : Freestanding Press
ISBN 13 : 9780984875351
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Inviting Leadership written by Daniel Mezick and published by Freestanding Press. This book was released on 1917-05-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pace of societal and business change continues to accelerate daily. In the new world of work, adaptive self-management, at scale, is no longer optional!Self-management is what actually scales business agility across the enterprise. Inviting Leadership & Invitation-Based Change are very specific leadership techniques that create the very conditions that are necessary for scaling genuine and authentic self-management across the entire enterprise. If you lead people in the workplace, a deep understanding of Inviting Leadership & Invitation-Based Change might be the most valuable leadership know-how you can develop. These skills are essential to survive and thrive as a leader in the new world of self-managed work. Part tutorial, part reference guide and part toolbox, this book contains everything you need to develop these valuable new skills. Inside, you'll find a complete kit that contains the underlying theory, very clearly described actionable guidance, and a toolbox of templates, diagrams, checklists and measurement tools. Everything you need to begin leading a self-managed workforce is here.

Wicked Problems Worth Solving

Author : Jon Kolko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615593159
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Problems Worth Solving written by Jon Kolko and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It feels like our world is spinning out of control. We see poverty, disease, and destruction all around us, and as we search for ways to make sense of the chaos, we're turning to new disciplines for answers and solutions. New, creative innovations are needed, and these new approaches demand different methods and different theories. This book is presented as a handbook for teaching and learning how to design for impact. In it, you'll learn how to apply the process of design to large, wicked problems, and how to gain control over complexity by acting as a social entrepreneur. You'll learn an argument for why design is a powerful agent of change, and you'll read practical methods for engaging with large-scale social problems. You can read this entire book online for free at http://www.wickedproblems.com/

Tackling Wicked Government Problems

Author : Jackson Nickerson
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815726406
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Tackling Wicked Government Problems written by Jackson Nickerson and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can government leaders build, sustain, and leverage the cross-organizational collaborative networks needed to tackle the complex interagency and intergovernmental challenges they increasingly face? Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders draws on the experiences of high-level government leaders to describe and comprehensively articulate the complicated, ill-structured difficulties they face—often referred to as "wicked problems"—in leading across organizational boundaries and offers the best strategies for addressing them. Tackling Wicked Government Problems explores how enterprise leaders use networks of trusted, collaborative relationships to respond and lead solutions to problems that span agencies. It also offers several approaches for translating social network theory into practical approaches for these leaders to build and leverage boundary-spanning collaborative networks and achieve real mission results. Finally, past and present government executives offer strategies for systematically developing enterprise leaders. Taken together, these essays provide a way forward for a new cadre of officials better equipped to tackle government's twenty-first-century wicked challenges.

Strategic Doing

Author : Edward Morrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119578612
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Doing written by Edward Morrison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten skills for agile leadership Complex challenges are all around us—they impact our companies, our communities, and our planet. This complexity and the emergence of networks is changing the practice of strategic management. Today’s leaders need to understand how to design and guide complex collaborations to accelerate innovation and change—collaborations that cross boundaries both inside and outside organizations. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You’ll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won’t find anywhere else. • Unleash the power of true collaboration • Learn and master the 10 skills of agile leadership • Apply individual skills to targeted situations • Introduces a new discipline of leadership strategy Filled with compelling case studies, Strategic Doing outlines a new discipline of leadership strategy specifically designed for open, loosely-connected networks.

Leading at the Strategic Level in an Uncertain World

Author : James William Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Leading at the Strategic Level in an Uncertain World written by James William Browning and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental nature of a leader's work changes at the strategic level. Leaders currently working as strategic leaders or those aspiring to become strategic leaders must gain a fine appreciation for the effort and skills required at the strategic level. Moreover, they need to develop and hone their personal dimensions (including conceptual, social, and behavioral capacities; individual traits, attitudes and characteristics; and technical skills and business acumen), and acquire the new knowledge essential for success at the strategic level. This book is intended to help develop strategic leaders in each of these personal dimensions.

The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance

Author : Richard D. Margerum
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785360418
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance by : Richard D. Margerum

Download or read book The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance written by Richard D. Margerum and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative approaches to governance are being used to address some of the most difficult environmental issues across the world, but there is limited focus on the challenges of practice. Leading scholars from the United States, Europe and Australia explore the theory and practice in a range of contexts, highlighting the lessons from practice, the potential limitations of collaboration and the potential strategies for addressing these challenges.

Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US

Author : Claudia S.P. Fernandez
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1803551550
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US written by Claudia S.P. Fernandez and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing health equity calls for a new kind of leader and a new approach to leadership development. Clinical Scholars and Culture of Health Leaders are mid-career leadership development programs supporting the emergence of collaborative and systemic approaches, bringing teams of leaders together with others in the community to work toward the common goal of lessening health disparities. In each chapter of this book, the authors share how they tackled seemingly intractable issues, making headway through applying the principles of adaptive leadership in unbounded systems to create not only outcomes but also impacts on health disparities and, in some cases, sustainable and scalable applications. In this volume, you will learn how Clinical Scholars and Culture of Health Leaders programs curated and measured the successful learning and development of these dedicated health-equity advocates.

Wicked Environmental Problems

Author : Peter J. Balint
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910478
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Environmental Problems written by Peter J. Balint and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conflicts over natural resource management and over the prioritization of economic and conservation goals more generally. This new book examines past experience and future directions in the management of wicked environmental problems and describes new strategies for mitigating the conflicts inherent in these seemingly intractable situations. The book: reviews the history of the concept of wicked problems examines the principles and processes that managers have applied explores the practical limitations of various approaches Most important, the book reviews current thinking on the way forward, focusing on the implementation of "learning networks," in which public managers, technical experts, and public stakeholders collaborate in decision-making processes that are analytic, iterative, and deliberative. Case studies of forest management in the Sierra Nevada, restoration of the Florida Everglades, carbon trading in the European Union, and management of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania are used to explain concepts and demonstrate practical applications. Wicked Environmental Problems offers new approaches for managing environmental conflicts and shows how managers could apply these approaches within common, real-world statutory decision-making frameworks. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with managing environmental problems.

CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformation

Author : Virginia Munro
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800430353
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformation written by Virginia Munro and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformation focuses on a new type of CSR, which includes entrepreneurial innovation, sustainable goals and shared and integrated value in a systems-oriented approach for deep transformation. All topics are backed by case studies, academic literature and future research opportunities.

Putting Design Thinking to Work

Author : Steven Ney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030196097
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Putting Design Thinking to Work written by Steven Ney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how the methods and mindsets of design thinking empower large organizations to create groundbreaking innovations. Arguing that innovations must effectively tackle so-called “wicked problems,” it shows how design thinking enables managers and innovators to create the organizational spaces and practices needed for breakthrough innovations. Design thinking equips actors with the tools and methods for harnessing the creative tensions inherent in pluralist, often conflicting disciplinary approaches. This, however, requires the transformation of contemporary organizational cultures away from monolithic, integrated models (or identities) toward more pluralist, dynamic and flexible institutional identities. Based on real-world cases from a wide range of organizations around the globe, the book offers managers and innovators practical guidance on initiating and managing the cultural transformations required for effective innovation.

Creating Wicked Students

Author : Paul Hanstedt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000980715
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Creating Wicked Students written by Paul Hanstedt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating Wicked Students, Paul Hanstedt argues that courses can and should be designed to present students with what are known as “wicked problems” because the skills of dealing with such knotty problems are what will best prepare them for life after college. As the author puts it, “this book begins with the assumption that what we all want for our students is that they be capable of changing the world....When a student leaves college, we want them to enter the world not as drones participating mindlessly in activities to which they’ve been appointed, but as thinking, deliberative beings who add something to society.”There’s a lot of talk in education these days about “wicked problems”—problems that defy traditional expectations or knowledge, problems that evolve over time: Zika, ISIS, political discourse in the era of social media. To prepare students for such wicked problems, they need to have wicked competencies, the ability to respond easily and on the fly to complex challenges. Unfortunately, a traditional education that focuses on content and skills often fails to achieve this sense of wickedness. Students memorize for the test, prepare for the paper, practice the various algorithms over and over again—but when the parameters or dynamics of the test or the paper or the equation change, students are often at a loss for how to adjust.This is a course design book centered on the idea that the goal in the college classroom—in all classrooms, all the time—is to develop students who are not just loaded with content, but capable of using that content in thoughtful, deliberate ways to make the world a better place. Achieving this goal requires a top-to-bottom reconsideration of courses, including student learning goals, text selection and course structure, day-to-day pedagogies, and assignment and project design. Creating Wicked Students takes readers through each step of the process, providing multiple examples at each stage, while always encouraging instructors to consider concepts and exercises in light of their own courses and students.