The purpose of the Leadership and Health System Redesign research study was to explore the leadership dynamics at play in Canadian health reform and to develop leadership capacity in the Canadian health system through applied research and knowledge mobilization. The study makes an important contribution to our understanding of how different forms of leadership are shaping health reform in Canada and the complex array of factors that make leadership of large scale reform very challenging.
It illuminates the need for much greater clarity about what concepts such as distributed and complexity leadership look like in practice, and how important it is to do further research on how those models can be used to influence transformation in a decentralized health care system. Results highlight the need for a more coordinated Canadian strategy for leadership talent management and succession planning and a more robust, systematic and comprehensive approach to research and knowledge mobilization on best practices of leadership.
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