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Systemic Effectiveness Matters

  • Catherine HobbsEmail author
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How? This chapter sets out the fifth and final stage of the Adaptive Learning Pathway for Systemic Leadership which focuses on thinking about systemic effectiveness as the context of project management. There is one suggested resource which is signposted for thinking about systemic effectiveness, which is the Vanguard development of lean. Amongst other things, this approach combines thinking about efficiency with overall effectiveness from the client’s point of view. The operational principle for systemic effectiveness is clarity of purpose—often (curiously) something which is overlooked. The chapter concludes with the associated key facet of systemic leadership for this principle.

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  1. 1.Centre for Systems StudiesHull University Business SchoolCumbriaUK

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