When “management” fails, how can we lead?

  • 12th December 2012
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I sat bolt upright reading Simon Caulkin’s perspective (FT.COM/Business Education 3 Dec 2012). He explains the 2008 crash and what is going wrong: the rules and conventions of management taught in board rooms, dealng rooms, also in Harvard and business schools throughout the world have turned out since the 1980s to be catastrophically wrong: “They […]

Educating the leaders of the future

  • 26th November 2012
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Our world is changing and if we as adults do not pay attention to how we are preparing our young people for the world they are emerging into and will be co-creating we are doing them and ourselves a deserves. Our schools need to be shifting to meet this new challenge and be both responding […]

Guest speaker Simon Williams’ thoughts on Module B

  • 18th November 2012
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It was a rich experience for me to work with people drawn from so many continents and countries and different occupational spheres. The diversity was fascinating but so was the commonalty – the desire of everyone to gain insight into the complexities of leadership. I sensed a real intellectual intensity as well as an emotional […]