Tackling Wicked Government Problems : A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Enterprise Leadership Challenge -- Part 1: Contemporary Enterprise Leadership Challenges -- Leading the National Security Enterprise: Some Personal Observations -- Collaborating to Honor Our Veterans -- Confronting Complexity and Creating Unity of Effort through Enterprise Leadership -- Part 2: What Makes for an Effective Enterprise Leader? -- Leading the Enterprise through Network Governance -- Critical Connections: Driving Rapid Innovation with a Network Perspective -- Leadership in a Networked World: How to Accelerate Organizational Change and Improve Performance -- Leveraging Networks through Boundary Spanning Leadership -- Part 3: An Enterprise Approach to Leadership Development -- Building a Culture of Executive Collaboration -- Developing Enterprise Leaders: The Case of the U.S. Intelligence Community -- Interagency Rotation Programs: Professional Develoment for Future Enterprise Leaders -- Reinventing the Senior Executive Service as an Enterprise Asset -- Meeting the Enterprise Leadership Challenge -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
How can government leaders build, sustain, and leverage the cross-organizational collaborative networks needed to tackle the complex interagency and intergovernmental challenges they increasingly face? Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders draws on the experiences of high-level government leaders to describe and comprehensively articulate the complicated, ill-structured difficulties they face--often referred to as "wicked problems"--in leading across organizational boundaries and offers the best strategies for addressing them. Tackling Wicked Government Problems explores how enterprise leaders use networks of trusted, collaborative relationships to respond and lead solutions to problems that span agencies. It also offers several approaches for translating social network theory into practical approaches for these leaders to build and leverage boundary-spanning collaborative networks and achieve real mission results. Finally, past and present government executives offer strategies for systematically developing enterprise leaders. Taken together, these essays provide a way forward for a new cadre of officials better equipped to tackle government's twenty-first-century wicked challenges.