The role of the leader is to ask the intelligent question and to enable ‘others’ to come up with the solutions
Working through change
What role can public leaders play in responding to the changes required?
Collective Leadership: is it the key to resolving public leadership challenges?
Tackling those ‘wicked issues’ that face society requires a multi agency approach. Explore the challenges …. The differing problem contexts often require differing leadership styles. Different types of problems – critical, wicked and tame – have been identified [1]. Critical problems are ones where it is […]
2013 – a year of continued public leadership challenges?
What will 2013 bring for public leaders? Leadership is key in dealing with a crisis and public leaders face several major issues. Join the debate and help us to consider these challenges as we enter 2013
What potential is there for localism?
Is the government’s programme for Localism too elastic? During a week in which we have seen a record low turn out for the election of the new Police and Crime Commissioners (described by the Electoral Commission as a ‘comedy of errors) with the new elected representatives holding a mandate of just between ten and twenty per cent (Telegraph, November 16th […]
If ever there was a time for Collective Public Leadership, that time is now
A quick scan of the news stories on the publicservice.co.uk website today makes quite stark reading. First, one Chief Constable is sacked following an IPCC investigation which has upheld the allegation that the chief lied to the inquiry and bullied staff; second, another Chief Constable is to retire allegedly against a background of the latest damning Hillsborough report; the Met’s acting […]
On this day 7 years ago ….. a Stark warning that went unheeded!
How often have we said; “If Only?” I had occasion today to read a copy of the Times that I had saved from 27th August 2005, exactly seven years ago. The headlines say it all. It brings to mind the importance of public leaders understanding risk and uncertainty. Could this have been avoided? As we look back in 2012 and […]
THE POLICE AND DEMOCRACY DEBATE GATHERS FORCE?
At 8.40 this morning I was invited to take part in a live radio debate on BBC Radio Northampton alongside Mr Michael Ellis, Conservative MP for Northampton North and a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee. This followed an earlier broadcast in which a potential Independent candidate for the post of Police and Crime Commissioner in Northamptonshire stated that […]
Police and Crime Commissioners – The Political Debate begins
The biggest change to police governance since the formation of the modern British police service is about to go ahead almost unnoticed by the vast majority of the British public and yet this could strike at the very heart of police independence. A Newsnight report on the BBC on 19th July 2012 underpinned many of my reasons for deciding not […]