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

What is the Value of People and Communities

Why Do Governments, Organisations, and Even Healthcare Value People and Communities as Worthless?

Every day people are laid off communities are not valued why? Why do our organisations see people only as costs?
It’s time we stop disinvesting in what matters most and start valuing humanity and creating positive social impact.

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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.

Management Psychological Cycle of Power And Control

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.

Cutting Bureaucrats: Senior manager annouces Some-of-You-Will-Lose-Your-Jobs-But-is-is-a-Sacrifice-Im-Willing-To-Make

Why Cutting Bureaucrats Won’t Fix Bureaucracy, And What Will

Learn why cutting bureaucrats the wrong way to fix the problems of bureaucracy and how we can really tackle this problem in our organisations

NHS England’s Darwinian Trap Why Evolution Doomed it To Fail and lessons learned

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.

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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.

"sorry it's not in the Budget" NHS Powerful Lie That Holds Back innovation

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 Measuring Healthcare Better

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.

Where Brainstorming Group Creativity and Problem Solving Fails The Minimum Acceptable Solution

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

Defining the Problem is the shadow of the Monster of need

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

A Good AI Helps Us Live & Work In Harmony and creates social impact

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

Are we losing contact with reality in healthcare data

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.

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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...
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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?

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?

Why Our Comfort Zone is Our Niche

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 We Can Improve the Diffusion Of Innovation With Psychology of Change

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? 

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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 We Need To Focus on Connections Rather Than Process For Organisational Change

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.

Creating Simple Change Risks Creating A Bubble To Be Burst Ashby Law Banner

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.

Why Organisational Simple Bias Harms Diversity & Inclusion

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.

Decision-Making-Paths

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.

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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

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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?

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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.

How to Make Your Organisation More Diverse Through Recruitment

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’s Wrong With The Diffusion Of Innovation Theory?

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?

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