Leading To IMpact Blog: Leadership & Decision Making For Social Impact

Why Wes Streeting’s 6 billion NHS Cost-Cutting Approach Is A Terrible Leadership Role Model.
Why the leadership role model set by Wes Streeting is a terrible example to set for the NHS and risks many poor decisions.

The Spiral of Control and Power: Why Healthcare Managers Psychology So Often Focuses on Orders, Actions and Micromanagement.
The Psychology why managers so often get over focused on the spiral of control and power, orders plans and micromanaging and how to escape it.
NHS England’s Darwinian Trap: Why Evolution Doomed It to Fail & What Lessons Can We Learn
NHS England didn’t change the system, the system changed NHS England. Discover why falling into a Darwinian Trap led to its failure, and how your organisation can evolve differently.
Is Measurement Destroying What Matters in Healthcare?
Focusing only on measurement, healthcare risks losing what matters most and understanding the real human and the real problem.
The Powerful NHS Budgeting Lie: Why It’s Stifling Change and How We Can Fix It
“You can’t do that, it’s not in the budget!” How this powerful lie prevents change and innovation in healthcare and what we can do about it.
The Change Radar: Rethinking Healthcare KPIs: Measuring What Truly Matters for Health & Wellbeing
Relying on narrow KPIs can mask deeper causes and shift problems instead of solving them. The Change Radar captures a fuller picture, health, social, and environmental factors, enabling earlier, more effective interventions.
Why Problem Solving and Brainstorming in Groups Often Fails: Moving Beyond the Minimum Acceptable Solution
Learn why groups often fail to produce innovative solutions when they brainstorm and solve problems resulting in the minimum acceptable solution
Why Starting with “Defining the Problem” in Public Services is a Mistake
Defining the problem in public sector projects & initiatives is often the first step to failure. We need to refocus on the system that creates those needs
What does good AI look like? Why We Need A Harmonious Vision of AI for the Future.
What does good AI look like? The concept of harmony can help us find our way to better AI and create a for a better future and positive social impact
Why More Data Isn’t Fixing Healthcare: The Case for Embracing Diverse Realities
Are we drowning in data but missing the point? Despite collecting ever more healthcare data, we are missing people’s diverse experience of reality.
Can the NHS Be Fixed With a New Plan? How To Avoid Repeating The Mistakes Of The Past.
The NHS is broken according to the UK Prime Minister. The NHS is at a crossroads once again, with fresh discussions of reform and yet another plan being proposed aimed at ‘fixing’ what’s deemed a broken system. But will a plan work? Can we learn from how other plans...
How to Make Your Organisation More Diverse Through Recruitment
It’s one thing to want to make your organisation diverse it’s another thing to do it. Our recruitment process discriminates at every stage against diversity. Whilst we talk about making our organisations more diverse, our main tool for change prevents diversity by...
What is The Edge of Possible? How to Make Better Decisions and Create A Future of Opportunity.
What is the Edge of Possible? How can it help you and your organisation make better decisions, be more resilient and grasp future opportunity?
Beyond the Comfort Zone: The Role of Niches in Personal and Social Transformation
Why Our Comfort Zone is our ecological niche and what this can teach us about change and transformation.
How You Can Speed Up The Diffusion of Innovation With Modern Psychology of Change
Elliot Rogers explained his Diffusion of Innovation Theory through a psychological model of change that is now long out of date. How can a modern understanding of psychology be applied to the diffusion of innovation to speed it up?
What’s Wrong With The Diffusion Of Innovation Theory?
Diffusion of Innovation Theory is the Most Widespread and important theory about how technology and change is spread throughout society. But it is more than 60 years old. What’s wrong with it and what can we do about it?
Why You Need to Focus on Empowering Relationships to Manage Organisational Change.
We normally focus on the wrong things for organisational change. Instead of looking at the parts such as processes, products, or people that make up the system understand the way that it is connected up can be the key to unlocking change.
Ashby’s Law Of Requisite Variety: Why Organisationals Fail Especially When They Change
Ashby’s law of requisite variety can often explain why organisational change fails. It explains why variation in implementing change is a force for success.
How Diversity & Inclusion is Harmed by Simple Decision Making Bias.
Diversity & Inclusion is essential in organisations, but it often conflicts with the idea of decision making being clear and simple towards an optimum.
How to Avoid the Most Common Mistake in Decision Making and Make Better Decisions
Learn to make better decisions. Rushing to make the right decision leads to the Einstellung effect. The most common decision making mistake.
Social Impact Leadership Guide For Better Strategy, Skills & Decision Making
Discover helpful and useful practical advice and guidance on tools techniques, knowledge and skills for social impact leadership & decision making
10 Inspiring Social Impact Leadership Examples For You To Love
These are 10 social impact leadership examples that i’ve found inspiring. What do they have in common? What can we learn from them?
How to Maximise Social Impact With Just One Strategy
How do you maximise social Impact?
This article helps you create a social impact strategy through clarity of focus on how you impact your community and how it changes who they are.
Don’t Get Stuck: Create Better Plans with Waypoints for Milestones
Revitalise your planning strategy by shifting from rigid milestones that hold up your projects. Move onto dynamic waypoints. Embrace the flexibility and adaptability of waypoints to navigate the ever-changing reality of the world and advance on a path to impact.
Leadership Plans Fail for These 12 Scientific Reasons
Leadership plans may fail as science tells us surprises and failures are inevitable. Understanding the intrinsic unpredictability of our world is crucial for planning and impactful leadership.
The Big Scaling Problem For Social & Organisational Change: The Law of Misunderstanding
As we learn more as a society we seem to get more stupid. The Law of Misunderstanding describes as the social impact of an idea proliferates, so do the mistakes
What Is A Project Funding Proposal? How to Understand What Funders Really Want.
A project funding proposal is a communication that you have the capability to achieve a funder’s intentions of creating their desired social impact.
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