Resources
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Liz Wiseman’s big idea - 'multiplier' vs 'diminisher' leaders
Inside organisations, there’s more intelligence than we can see with the naked eye – and it takes a certain type of leader to amplify, unleash and harness the intelligence of others. A former executive at Oracle, Liz Wiseman discusses the difference between a ‘multiplier’ and a ‘diminsher’ leader.
- Culture
Audio/Video 12 Feb 2016 -
Herminia Ibarra’s big idea - 'now' is the time
Now is the best moment for managers to step up to leadership, without the benefits of a formal job move or an anticipated promotion – Herminia Ibarra, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and author of ‘Act like a leader, think like a leader’, shares her suggestions on how to do this.
- Culture
- Development
Audio/Video 1 Feb 2016 -
Is leadership making progress?
Talking with Professor Stew Friedman of the famous Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, I told him I’d been struck by the powerful strain of optimism in his work.
- Culture
Article 29 Jan 2016 -
Learning leadership
Thinkers 50's Stuart Crainer interviews business leaders to share advice on learning leadership. "That’s the thing about learning: we need space to do it. We don’t always get it right straight away. That’s why the learning leader gives people room to fail – including themselves."
- Culture
Article 27 Jan 2016 -
Triggers can be positive or negative
I love my job! The only tough part of my profession as an executive coach and management speaker is that I travel constantly. On American Airlines alone, I have over 11 million frequent flyer miles.
Article 21 Jan 2016
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Defining leadership
The first in a new monthly series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Thinkers 50, the episode reviews some of Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove’s favourite definitions of leadership.
- Culture
- Development
Audio/Video 18 Jan 2016 -
How to make 2016 your best year ever
To make resolutions that matter, don't look forward. Look back. By February, half of all New Year's resolutions are broken, a thing of the past, a distant, abandoned memory.
- Development
Article 6 Jan 2016 -
Leadership - built on values
At the end of the 1980s I spent an afternoon with the great management thinker Peter Drucker. He recounted stories of encounters with Sigmund Freud when he was a child in Vienna, coming to London to work with the Economist.
- Culture
Article 4 Jan 2016 -
Leaders know what matters
“Attention is the chief bottleneck in organisational activity, and the bottleneck becomes narrower and narrower as we move to the top of organisations,” noted Herbert Simon, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Culture
- Development
Article 29 Dec 2015 -
It takes two
Do we have unrealistic expectations of our corporate and political leaders? This was one of the questions we asked Harvard Business School’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
- Culture
Article 11 Dec 2015