Vertical leadership in highly complex and unpredictable health systems.

Br J Hosp Med (Lond)

Professor of Medical Education and Director of Strategic Educational Development, Swansea University, Swansea.

Published: August 2016

This article explores how the concept of vertical leadership development might help health organizations cope with and thrive within highly complex and unpredictable health systems, looking at concepts of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and RUPT (rapid, unpredictable, paradoxical and tangled).

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http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2016.77.8.471DOI Listing

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