Leadership of public policies and public institutions is not the same than it used to be. Gone are the days of bureaucratic top-down command & control leadership!

A genuinely relevant question is what does our complex and interconnected societies demand from public sector leadership? How should public leadership evolve? And how should it be developed from the perspective of crossing organizational siloes and governments branches in order to serve the society the best possible way and to maintain best quality service quality? What kind of leadership identity shifts are needed to add value and serve the needs of the society in the dynamic world?

Read an introduction to key issues of human-centered and service-orientated public sector leadership in the new Research Outreach article written by our CEO, Professor Petri Virtanen and Director of Development Marika Tammeaid: The new leadership paradigm for the public sector.

Research Outreach Issue 115