A little over a year after Nigar Baimova from the British Council completed MiDDLEGROUND’s Module B, Systemic Mentors course, she reflects on her leadership journey and how her interaction with MiDDLEGROUND has impacted her work. In the whirlwind of current conditions in Azerbaijan with currency devaluation, a struggling economy and everyone worried about the unpredictability […]
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Leadership: the full human being in role
A contribution from John Bazalgette It was said of Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil war, that “He was their leader: he followed them”. How does that symbiosis work out in 21st century practice in businesses, organisations and countries across the globe? The answer lies in a different way of thinking about role. The common misapprehension […]
Gordon Lyle – Reflecting Back a Year
I approached MiDDLEGROUND’s Leadership Breakthroughs Programme (Module A) with no clear expectations but rather a strong hope that what it would provide for me would be time and space for pause and reflection at a key point on my leadership ‘journey’. In fact what I experienced was a quite unique learning experience which, for a […]