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Brexit – Who will lead?
As the post Brexit vote dust settles, it is now thankfully clear who will lead the UK nation through the biggest transition in living history.
- Culture
Article 27 Jul 2016 -
The power of connectional intelligence
In a world that has become not just hyper-connected, but over-connected, is emotional intelligence enough to help us manage relationships? Erika Dhawan introduces a new concept - connectional intelligence.
- Culture
- Development
Audio/Video 18 Jul 2016 -
Mindfulness - in conversation with Deborah Rowland
Mindfulness seems to be everywhere, whether you talk about mindful coaching, mindful consulting or mindful leadership. But what does it mean?
- Development
Audio/Video 14 Jul 2016 -
What’s your strategy in 15 words?
Imagine you are a CEO. You take your top team away for a strategy session at a suitably well-furnished hotel somewhere in the countryside. Over two days of discussions, you emerge with a great new strategy for the organisation.
- Outcomes
Article 13 Jul 2016 -
The worst thing you can do is live a changeless life
Imagine living a life in which nothing changed. I’m not talking about working at the same company your entire adult life, or staying married to the same person for fifty years, or never leaving the community you were born in.Article 6 Jul 2016
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Brexit in the shadow of the Somme
"On 24 June I woke to the seismic shock of the UK vote to exit the European Union..." Deborah Rowland reflects on the possible effects of the UK leaving the European Union.
- Culture
Article 4 Jul 2016 -
Onlyness in the social era
"Relationships are to the social era what efficiency was to the industrial era", says Nilofer Merchant, winner of the Thinkers50 Future Thinker Award and TED speaker.
- Culture
- Development
Audio/Video 23 Jun 2016 -
Your guide to quick ways to keep up-to-date
This month we look at how to keep up-to-date. As life seems to get ever busier and ever faster, there seems to be less and less time.
- Development
e-learning 23 Jun 2016 -
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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Your guide to the best leadership apps
There are now over 1.5 million apps in both the Apple and the Android stores, and the number is constantly growing. So which are the best free apps for leaders?
- Development
e-learning 31 May 2016 -
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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FMLM Annual Report 2015
The report highlights FMLM's main achievements in 2015, including the launch of the Leadership and management standards for medical professionals and our annual conference in Manchester.FMLM publication 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 -
Leaders thrive on ambiguity
“To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign”, wrote the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was right. Even if a leader’s power doesn’t quite stretch to omnipotence, being a leader can be a lonely place. It can also be a confusing one. Isolation and ambiguity are powerfully destructive forces among the ranks of leaders.Article 10 May 2016
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Lilly lecture 2016 - Take me to your leader
Baroness Julia Cumberlege CBE DL, House of Lords and a Fellow of five medical royal colleges delivered this year’s Lilly lecture, 'Take me to your leader'. The lecture was hosted at the Royal College of Physicians on 20 April.Audio/Video 6 May 2016