A Systems Thinking and Design Thinking Approach to Leadership

Grace Mugadza and Roy Marcus
Additional contact information
Grace Mugadza: Da Vinci Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
Roy Marcus: Da Vinci Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

Expert Journal of Business and Management, 2019, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Systems Thinking, Design Thinking and Leadership have largely been developed independently of each other. More recently, there have been, ongoing initiatives to integrate Systems Thinking and Design Thinking. The main aim of this abstract paper is to suggest that the effectiveness of this integrated approach is uniquely linked to leadership. The paper will emphasise the important role played by leadership and explore how leadership has developed through the different paradigms. The benefits of viewing these transitions from a Kuhnian scientific paradigm perspective is highlighted followed by a Systemic view of leadership and then a presentation of a Design Thinking perspective noting that the attributes arising out of the two approaches will benefit leadership. This leads to a discussion of how leadership will benefit from the integrated Systems and Design Thinking approach.

JEL-codes: M14 M20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://business.expertjournals.com/ark:/16759/EJBM_701mugadza1-10.pdf (application/pdf)
http://business.expertjournals.com/23446781-701 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:exp:bsness:v:7:y:2019:i:1:p:1-10

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Expert Journal of Business and Management from Sprint Investify
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alin Opreana ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).