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Can local authorities thrive on chaos?

A council that wants to be an organisation that thrives on chaos needs a different type of chief executive who is flexible and can tolerate uncertainty, says Blair McPherson.

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You have a team stacked with talent. People who are creative, innovative, energetic and enthusiastic. But their performance doesn't match their ability. Do you sacrifice some of this creativity and enthusiasm by tightening control, introducing a more risk adverse approach and limiting ambition or do you aim to create a team that makes the maximum use of talent and thrives on controlled chaos? A team whose skills and inventiveness will allow them to outperform teams and organisations with ridged, predictable and risk adverse ways of doing things. 

Some organisations thrive on chaos. They promote a culture of creativity and innovation and attract talented risk takers

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