Thinking & opinion

More than a third of managers surveyed in Roffey Park’s annual Management Agenda 2013 reported that a focus on innovation is a key strategic priority for the future. At the same time, nearly two-thirds reported that doing more with less is the main challenge facing their organisation, and a half reported that seeking or implementing [...]

At HRD 2013, we recently presented the following session on the difference and overlap between Strategic HR and OD. The debate about HR and OD is on some levels interesting, and on other levels runs the risk of being conceptual and of little practical use. Our aim with the session was to do the following: [...]

In my last blog I asked the question ‘What is authenticity in leadership?’ I suggested that, while the word has been overused and misused in leadership circles, there is still something appealing and distinct that people crave for in leadership that might be articulated through the word ‘authentic’.  I suggested that what people might be [...]

A key aim of leadership development programmes is (and should be) self-awareness. The leader who lacks self-awareness becomes a pain, and is ineffective in leading people. This is now widely enough acknowledged that it requires little preamble. Often I meet people who have things that they do, that don’t work for them in terms of [...]

The BBC has announced its new Director General in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal and Justice Leveson is about to publish his report into media standards. Whereas the City has been at the centre of debate over corporate ethics and accountability in recent years, now it is the media industry’s turn to be [...]