Wendy Lansdown

Believe in people, community and collaboration.

[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

My first one in yonks!

It was good to dust off the blog pen again.

With thanks to Chris Swarbrick for the wonderful artwork

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@PaulTrustWorks @bannon_ashling
@ProfDonnaHall @John_A_Wade

[Hilary Cottam @HilaryCottam]

Will Makerfield change Westminster? https://t.co/AxM5smQGRZ via @themjcouk from the brilliant @ProfDonnaHall the architect of the Wigan Deal which remains the most significant social system change work we have seen in the UK.

[caroline slocock @carolineslocock]

What can we do? In my forthcoming book, Bad Government, I reflect on this and other dimensions of government. What is clear is that stoking division and pursuing culture wars as the last govt did makes good headlines but very bad government.

[Hilary Cottam @HilaryCottam]

The Work We Need - out in paperback today and available on line and in all bookshops. This is for you if you want a different story about work and what’s possible @ViragoBooks

[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

@Sam_in_Cam @ACarpenDigital Thanks for thinking of me @Sam_in_Cam, v much up my street!

[caroline slocock @carolineslocock]

More than 150 lawyers, human rights, refugee and environmental organisations have said they are being “pressured into silence” after some received rape and death threats from far-right and anti-migrant protesters.https://t.co/btugpQwMzF

[Eve Holt @evefrancisholt]

This was such a beautiful moment. Sport at its best. Showing you can be both fiercely competitively in the game and then joyfully united in loss or victory.

@RedRosesRugby #RWC2025

[caroline slocock @carolineslocock]

A government that has become so focused on an opposition’s agenda is one that is losing its sense of purpose and direction. Remember when growth was the top priority, the 5 missions and a decade of national renewal. Now it seems to be small boats.

[Re:State @restate_thinks]

The Re:View is out! 🎉

This week, Policy Director, @stkaye reflects on a series of announcements surrounding devolution and decentralisation

[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

A new blog - let's think about building trusted relationships first, then think about £ https://t.co/9pqhFccPuP

@ProfDonnaHall @John_A_Wade @PaulIanTaylor @DebbieSorkin2 @robfountain1 @charlie_psych @PaulIanTaylor @PaulTrustWorks
@antlerboy @Longhouseman
@gerrycano1

[caroline slocock @carolineslocock]

When he became PM Starmer told the civil service his missions ‘require a different way of working. One of openness, of collaboration and transparency in everything we do.’ But now officials are being blocked from public platforms. Why? https://t.co/vDpAIPGhv8

[caroline slocock @carolineslocock]

This truly alarming: “instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries.”

[Re:State @restate_thinks]

🚨Don't miss our fourth 'Meetings with Mayors' webinar on Wednesday at 11am with Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, @LCRMayor

Register here👇
https://t.co/oL7zmEgPHr

[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

@ProfDonnaHall @GalgosdelSol 💔, sending love Donna xx

[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

Mobilising the people to remake the state
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[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

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[Corporate Rebels @corp_rebels]

The hardest part of any transformation:

Unlearning old habits.

Tomorrow, we’re sharing 10 brutally honest answers about what it really takes to unlearn control and how K2K helped 100+ companies transform into self-managed workplaces ➡️
https://t.co/Kjht4WNkvu

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

Leadership for large-scale change: distinctive challenges, emerging responses – part 2.
In my post yesterday, I discussed some principles from The Aspen Institute and the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance underpinning approaches for leaders in large scale change initiatives to boost their effectiveness. From these, the partners are developing a “learning architecture” for leaders to collaborate, based on three layers. The design of the learning event I attended was based on this architecture. The model is designed to minimise demands on the time and energy of leaders:
1. Case Clinic: A structured session where the leaders of a project present a particular change initiative (their case), including goals, achievements, priorities and challenges, to a small, diverse group of peers and invited guests. Discussion follows a protocol designed to elicit new perspectives and ideas that benefit the leaders of the case and generate lessons others can use.
2. Cohort: The impact of the case clinics are amplified and extended by forming cohorts of peers who stay together across a series of case clinics.
3. Community: A learning community is built, where the possibilities for deepening and focusing cumulative knowledge multiply, which is this case was about identifying key challenges of leadership for large scale change, connecting to other community-builders focused on large-scale change and developing relevant tools and materials.
The case clinic method was very powerful. Both of the cases in the clinic that my cohort participated in were high in impact and large in scale. The change methods that the case leaders utilised were different to the approaches that I use so it made me see things through a different lens and question my own practice in a positive way. The people in my cohort were very diverse and yet we were able to identify high level principles that we could all relate to.
Tomorrow I will post more about the themes that emerged. You can read about the three layer learning architecture here – “Enhancing leadership effectiveness in large-scale change initiatives: a proposal for joint action” (a work in progress): https://t.co/VUJ0TgEFoe.

[Wendy Lansdown @wendylansdown]

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[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan | The Guardian https://t.co/p741dlXh1e

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Weak economics & mean. “This is having a devastating impact on their ability to provide support that the most disadvantaged pupils need, with almost half of secondary school leaders forced to use funding intended for poorer pupils to plug budget holes” https://t.co/YWrIMOQ2He