Claire Toomey

2 weeks ago | tandfonline.com | Paul Cairney |Claire Toomey

Needham et al.’s (Citation2025) valuable new account of ‘system diplomacy’ seeks an alternative to systems leadership in professional training. However, the authors do not really specify what systems leadership is, which makes it difficult to say what it is not. Therefore, it is difficult to tell if they are offering a meaningful alternative or exacerbating the high levels of confusion that people may experience when engaging with systems leadership to a non-trivial extent.