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Why Agile Should Be the Basis of Your Leadership Programme

Darren A. Smith

January 30, 2020

The Origins of Agile In 2001 seventeen extreme software developers met at Snowbird in the Wasatch Mountains. They spent 3…

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Reflection: Leadership Rituals to Achieve Higher Performance

Will Clement

November 7, 2019

Leadership Rituals It would be very easy to begin this reflection by advocating leaders have 5 or 7 particular rituals…

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Va + L = Cu*(PX): The Employee Engagement Equation

Sandy Wilkie

October 21, 2019

An Equation for Employee Engagement I have worked in the field of Employee Engagement for 20 years, across both private…

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Reflection: Leadership Styles to Achieve Higher Performance

Will Clement

October 9, 2019

Appreciating Leadership Styles Interest and writing on leadership skills, and in particular styles of leadership, over the last 50 years…

Black Box Thinking – Margin Gains by Matthew Syed | Book Review

John Whitfield

October 8, 2019

Black Box Thinking: About the Book Matthew Syed, now that name rings a bell you might say? and you’d be…

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Reflection: Ethical Leadership to Achieve Higher Performance

Will Clement

October 1, 2019

Promoting Ethical Leadership Articles and interest in ethical leadership have risen dramatically over the last decade. Managers and leaders are…

Reflection: The Importance of Emotional Wellbeing

Will Clement

August 29, 2019

Nurturing Emotional Wellbeing… Beginning the journey as a new manager is exciting and nerve-racking. The difficulty can be that there…

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What I Learnt from a Bar About Decision Making & Leadership

Darren A. Smith

June 28, 2019

The Decision Making Bar in Business: Reflecting on My Volunteer Experience The music of a local blues band was getting…

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Reflection: Emotional Intelligence for New Managers

Will Clement

June 20, 2019

Mindful of Emotional Intelligence In past refections, I talk about the new manager and challenges for middle managers. In both…

Reflections of a Managing Director for Hasbro

Simon Leslie

June 5, 2019

Life as a Consumer Goods Managing Director I was very privileged to have been Managing Director in Portugal, Chile then…

An Authentic Approach to Management of Organisational Change

Will Clement

May 27, 2019

Organisational Change is About the Here and Now It’s a saying that has been used to death and beyond, ‘the…

First Man In Leading from Front By Ant Middleton | Book Review

Andy Palmer

May 1, 2019

About the Book: First Man In by Ant Middleton There are self-help guides about leadership aplenty. There are countless memoirs…