Resources
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Leadership lessons from Leicester City
Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove highlight six leadership lessons we can learn from the Foxes’ victory, starting with: leaders tune in to context, underdogs have teeth; leaders hunt in packs.
- Culture
Audio/Video 20 Jun 2016 -
Aiming blind and big
Talking to entrepreneurial leaders you never know what to expect. Sometimes their business idea appears badly developed. Other times it is so highly developed that they can appear caught in an entrepreneurial straightjacket of great intentions.
- Culture
Article 3 Jun 2016 -
Adoption and vulnerability - in conversation with Deborah Rowland
In this podcast, Deborah Rowland, co-author of Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works, talks about how she used adoption as an asset – to cultivate her curiosity and curtail her fear of rejection.
Audio/Video 2 Jun 2016
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What drives the best leaders?
When assessing the potential of future leaders, we often forget to ask one key question: How much do you love leading people? The best leaders have one quality in common. They love leading people and they are passionate about it!
Article 30 May 2016
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Leadership is forged in fire
For Nelson Mandela it was Robben Island. For former U.S. presidential candidate John McCain it was Vietnam. There is a point in the lives of leaders, a moment when the leader makes the grade, when they leap from management to leadership, from team member to leader.
Article 26 May 2016
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Where does strategy get stuck?
Strategy doesn't get stuck at the 'workers' or the 'frozen middle' level; it gets stuck because senior executives don't see themselves as an aligned force for good, says Liz Mellon, author of Inside the Mind of the Leader and The Strategy of Execution.
- Culture
Audio/Video 24 May 2016 -
Change is changing - in conversation with Deborah Rowland
Deborah Rowland, co-author of Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works, draws on her experience of leading change in major global organisations including Shell, BBC Worldwide and PepsiCo, to show how 'change is changing'.
- Culture
Audio/Video 16 May 2016 -
What to do when it’s hard to get things done
When we make plans for the future or even just today, why do we so seldom, if ever, plan on distractions? We plan as if we will be able to get down to work without accommodating the fact that life always intrudes to alter our priorities and test our focus.
- Development
Article 13 May 2016 -
Profits of zoom
One of the most inspiring leaders we have ever met is Dame Ellen MacArthur. She is a master of many skills, but one of the clearest is one that is central to modern leadership: being able to move from the short-term to the long-term – constantly.
- Culture
- Development
Article 2 May 2016 -
Steward Friedman's big idea - leadership from the point of view of the whole person
Stewart Friedman, Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School, introduces the concept of 'leadership from the point of view of the whole person' and makes the case for pursuing sustainable change by integrating the different parts of one's life.
- Culture
Audio/Video 20 Apr 2016