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Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders

How can governments respond and organise themselves to tackle ever more wicked problems effectively? This book answers this question by arguing primarily that governments cannot rely only on structural change, but must also develop a new kind of leadership development approach. Leaders need to know how to cultivate and use networks, as well as being able to encourage and facilitate collaboration between employees, agencies, departments and other organisations. In the book, those leaders are referred to as ‘enterprise leaders’. Enterprise here refers to the resources and capabilities of the many public or private organisations involved in responding to national or international issues that cross the boundaries of any one organisation. An enterprise leader is someone able to coordinate those resources appropriately and lead an efficient response. Tackling Wicked Government Problems was edited by Jackson Nickerson, a professor of organisation and strategy at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St Louis, and Ronald Sanders, vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton and previous senior government employee. The book is a result of a symposium organised for scholars and leading practitioners to discuss ‘wicked’ government problems, and was published with the aim of collecting their thoughts and stirring more debates and discussions on the subject, to ultimately achieve progress. Throughout the chapters, the contributors offer their perspectives and propose methods to solve problems which span multiple agencies, using networks, collaboration and effective leadership.