The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective

Most organisations - public, private and third sector - know they need to offer better leadership. But, in trying to do so, they too often look in the wrong place. Experience tells us that even heroic leaders are no better than the systems they work in. Flawed systems strangle leadership. The answer? Stop polishing the fish and tackle the water they swim in! The Search for Leadership shows why it is naive to expect much leadership from individual managers acting alone. Only when we start to see leadership as a property of the organisation can we begin to improve it. William Tate pulls no punches in his examination of leadership in business, politics and institutions like the police and the Health Service. Using forensic analysis, cogent argument and damning case studies, he shows why conventional leadership models and programmes miss the point and waste our money. In their place he presents a proven and practical 'Systems Thinking' approach that will transform the way leadership is developed, applied and held accountable for delivering results. This eye-opening account of the challenges organisations face is written for managers as well as developers, teachers, researchers and coaches. Its systemic focus sets it apart from other leadership books. It will change the way you think about leadership and help improve the way any organisation is run.

Business & Money

Tate, William

Management & Leadership

Triarchy Press Ltd

Most organisations - public, private and third sector - know they need to offer better leadership. But, in trying to do so, they too often look in the wrong place. Experience tells us that even heroic leaders are no better than the systems they work in. Flawed systems strangle leadership. The answer? Stop polishing the fish and tackle the water they swim in! The Search for Leadership shows why it is naive to expect much leadership from individual managers acting alone. Only when we start to see leadership as a property of the organisation can we begin to improve it. William Tate pulls no punches in his examination of leadership in business, politics and institutions like the police and the Health Service. Using forensic analysis, cogent argument and damning case studies, he shows why conventional leadership models and programmes miss the point and waste our money. In their place he presents a proven and practical 'Systems Thinking' approach that will transform the way leadership is developed, applied and held accountable for delivering results.  This eye-opening account of the challenges organisations face is written for managers as well as developers, teachers, researchers and coaches. Its systemic focus sets it apart from other leadership books. It will change the way you think about leadership and help improve the way any organisation is run.

Triarchy Press

The Organisational Leadership Audit looks at leadership as an organisational resource. It shows how organisations need to provide a shared, honest and valid purpose, develop a conscious, supportive leadership culture, create a leadership structure that works, and remove obstacles to individual leadership. So, the key question for organisations becomes: How well is leadership being managed from an organisational perspective? The Organisational Leadership Audit is an essential tool for HR departments and senior general managers/directors in any organisation. By undertaking this audit you will: *Determine your organisation's strengths and weaknesses in respect of leadership including: the oversight provided by top management to leadership-enhancing initiatives; the leadership culture; leadership-related strategies, policies, plans, systems and processes. *See the need for organisational leadership that meets the expectations and demands of the changing business and social environment. *Identify what promotes, sustains and inhibits leadership in your organisation. *Encourage a consistent approach which ensures that leadership is acquired, developed, used, appraised, promoted, rewarded and retained. *Design appropriate responses to remedy any deficits in your organisation's provision and exercise of leadership - and remove obstacles to effective organisational leadership. *Lay the groundwork for a corporate-led senior management development strategy. *Set a baseline to audit organisational leadership against in future - and measure progress.

The Organisational Leadership Audit

Most managers understand the idea and importance of technological innovation. They observe it every day in new products, services and business processes. But few understand how to give their business the permanent ability to be innovative in everything that it does.  Crucial in bringing this about is the way the enterprise manages its people, its internal organisation and networks.  *The key to competitive advantage Innovation in this context means: the systemic capacity to successfully exploit new ideas, wherever and whenever they arise, and to whatever they might be applied. It is widely seen as holding one of the most important keys to unlocking competitive advantage in an increasingly challenging business environment.   The Business Innovation Audit focuses on your organisation's present way of working and on how it impacts on its innovating HR professionals with responsibility for how well their organisation performs.  *Release your organisation's innovating potential  Use the Audit to assess the level of understanding about which business structures and practices lead to innovative capability for the whole organisation. Use it to assess, expand and release your organisation's innovating potential.   10 questionnaires examine how well your enterprise fosters innovation in the way that it is run. Each is accompanied by practical guidance and advice. This offers definitions and other useful advice to help you complete your assessment. It then suggests possible changes and improvements.

The Business Innovation Audit

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Leadership is more than a human quality or skill: working properly, it is an integrated organisation-wide system, including culture, structures and processes. The Systemic Leadership Toolkit is designed to help any organisation review its leadership development approach, especially the way it uses leadership to improve its effectiveness. Many common features of organisations - such as a dysfunctional leadership culture, narrow power distribution, rigid protocol, inappropriate rules and bureaucratic processes - can stifle managers' leadership role rather than add value to it. By separating the concept of leadership activity from individual leaders, toolkit users can learn about and diagnose problems with their organisation's systemic leadership capability, opportunities and needs. The toolkit is split into nine modules, each comprising challenging questions to address the different aspects of leadership and to guide managers through the process of viewing leadership from an organisational and systemic perspective. Scoreable yet discursive, the toolkit's practical questionnaires encourage managers to engage in the change process. 'Guidance and Implementation' sections after each questionnaire, plus helpful case studies, develop the thinking behind each aspect of systemic leadership and suggest activities for bringing about real and lasting improvements. The Systemic Leadership Toolkit is a companion to the author's book on the subject: 'The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective'.

Systemic Leadership Toolkit: Diagnostic questionaires and practical guidance to help any organisation understand the way its leadership can be improved and applied to benefit the business as a whole.

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