Systemic Leadership For Local Governance - Catherine Hobbs

A Truly Expansive And Valuable Book That Challenges The Assumptions And Constraints Of Current Leadership Thinking. Its Focus On Integrating Theory And Practice Is Particularly Helpful In Linking Its Key Ideas To Current Public Sector Management Concerns.gareth Morgan, Author Of Images Of Organizationwhile Other Authors Have Offered General Principles Of Systemic Leadership Or Given Readers Single Approaches, Hobbs Is Much More Ambitious: She Brings Together Diverse, Well-tested Theoretical, Methodological And Practical Approaches To Provide Todays Leaders With A Multifaceted Resource That Can Aid Them In Thinking Systemically. In This Respect, Her Book Is A Significant Advance On Previous Offerings, And I Wholeheartedly Recommend It To Leaders, Aspiring Leaders And Leadership Academics Around The World.gerald Midgley, University Of Hull, Ukthis Is An Impressive And Innovative Work That Draws Together The Disparate Strands Of Complexity Theory, Systems Thinking And Operational Research To Build An Adaptive Social Learning Approach For Local Governance, Helping To Shift It From A Service-led To Systemic-deliberative Model.