In this Book
- Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Brookings Institution Press
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 faceoften 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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Contemporary Enterprise Leadership Challenges
- Collaborating to Honor Our Veterans
- pp. 29-36
- Part 2: What Makes for an Effective Enterprise Leader?
- Part 3: An Enterprise Approach to Leadership Development
- Meeting the Enterprise Leadership Challenge
- pp. 162-180
- Contributors
- pp. 181-187
- Back Cover
- p. 198