Dr Sinem Bulkan We are in an era of constant change. For businesses, the environment is evolving at a rapid pace. How can companies not only survive these challenging and volatile conditions but also look for opportunities to thrive? In the last few years, we have encountered unprecedented challenges – from Brexit to the COVID-19…
Author: Alex Baker
Alex is a Support Administrator for Leadership, Orgainsation and Behaviour at Henley Business School. He is also the administrator for the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship and is the Secretary for the Henley Business Angels.
The rewilding of leadership
Dr Chris Dalton At the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show in London this year, one garden caught the eye of the judges, the imagination of the public and the headlines in the press like no other. The Rewilding Garden, co-engineered by landscape designers Urquhart and Hunt and (we’re told) some beavers, won Gold Medal…
What we need is leadership! Yes, but what kind?
Professor David Pendleton While debating leadership with a group of very smart people, I was provoked by a man with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye. I had just been extolling the virtues of distributed leadership and sharing some compelling evidence about it when my interlocuter wanted to remind me…
What Should the Parties of the Centre-Left do Now?
This is not a party political piece. I am writing, as ever, about leadership since there are important leadership lessons here. They apply equally well to organisations, sports teams, political parties and others. In the face of failure, when the circumstances should have led to success, the critical next step is to learn but how…
The Blame Game
I’m a firm believer that the key to success is to focus on what you can control and to let go of what you can’t. Sounds obvious, but every day most of us will be faced with examples where this rules goes out of the window and instead the ugly face of blame rears its…
It’s ‘T’ Time – let’s put the Technology into STEM
There has been a lot of focus on STEM subjects over the last few years, and rightly so. The government in its Industrial Strategy Green Paper published earlier this year has drawn attention to the importance of the subjects and the need for skills in these areas, highlighting STEM skills as one of the ten…
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