Leadership and conditions for Creativity This week I have been developing a workshop around creative problem solving as well as marking assignments for the MBA programme Creativity, Innovation and Change (Open University Business School.) A set of concepts that I...
When I started running management training courses for new managers in the early 90ties, one of the slides that I used to show attempted to define the differences between managers and leaders. This was based upon the work of Kotter Kotter defines management as being...
Last week I wrote about the French hierarchical style of leadership, and since then I have recently read an article in the Guardian concerning a different style, that of Ban Ki-moon. I prefer not to comment on the general question of his effectiveness as a UN...
Last week was Bastille Day in France and as I listened several times to the words of the Marsaillaise it struck me that there is a real paradox in France between the concept of democracy and power to the people which somehow these words represent and the hierarchical...
The Economist recently (June 12th -18th) included an article written by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway. Something that he said resonated with me – that is that ‘Technology is easy to develop, developing a new attitude, moving the culture from one...
