One of my favourite illustrators of organisational life is @voinonen. Here she is highlighting wicked problems (messes). These are complex issues involving many interdependent factors, making them hard to define & understand fully & with no clear solution. Most of the issues we deal with in health & care fit into this category. That's why, as leaders of change, we need to take an experimenter's mindset, creating small test of change, because it is difficult to predict what cause & effect will be. More about wicked problems: interaction-design.org/liter…. By @designwithixdf. To see more of Virpi's cartoons: businessillustrator.com/cart…

How do we enable change? According to Greg Satell @Digitaltonto, ideas for change spread socially. So it's the structure of networks that determine how fast/far ideas for change travel. It's not about the mode of communication or even the individual influence of early adopters. In effect, it is small groups, loosely connected & united by a shared purpose that initiate the cascade of transformational change. That's why many change/improvement leaders are getting increasingly interested in network thinking & practice. See this: greg-satell.medium.com/heres…. You can also download Greg's workbook for transformational change for free: gregsatell.com/wp-content/up…