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The American public looks to the federal government to successfully respond to and solve our "wicked" problems. Complex, cross-cutting national challenges like these are no longer the exception to the rule, but are the new normal.
How can federal managers and executives build and use the collaborate networks necessary to solve these issues?
The government must work to develop enterprise leaders, those able to solve problems by tapping the resources of multiple organizations with an overlapping or common goal to solve the issue at hand, argues a new book on the subject.
"Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders," draws on the experience of some of the federal government's most successful executives and leadership development experts who offer proven strategies for successfully taking on the great challenges that confront our nation.
Published by Brookings Institution Press, the book is co-edited by Jackson Nickerson, PhD, the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy at Washington University's Olin Business School and associate dean and director of Brookings Executive Education, with Ronald Sanders, vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, who gave 37 years of distinguished government service to the U.S. Intelligence Community, the Office of Personnel Management, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Defense.
"These challenges, both fleeting and enduring, require a new kind of leader and a new kind of leadership development approach," the pair writes in the book's opening chapter. "These challenges require a type of leader who understands that tackling wicked government problems requires building and drawing upon a network of critical organizational and individual actors, no matter where they may reside.
"They require a type of leader who can encourage and facilitate collaboration by leveraging shared values and interests to achieve a resolution that is greater than the sum of individual actions. We call individuals who are imbued with or have developed such abilities 'enterprise leaders,' and they are increasingly in demand."
The authors note that there is no single "silver bullet" strategy that guarantees the development of enterprise leaders; rather, they offer a variety of approaches and methods are available, some easy and relatively low cost to implement while others require breaking existing paradigms of leadership development.
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McGill University 10 Aug, 2013
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