Applied neuroscientist, Prof Paul Brown, explains how emotions underpin everything we do – and the importance of understanding this for managers who have to deal with people every day. Referencing some of the latest thinking from the world of neuroscience and explaining it in a very accessible and applicable manner, Prof Brown’s insights are a […]
Podcast Subject: Leadership
Ryne Sherman on the Nature of Human Nature
Ryne Sherman is Chief Science Officer at Hogan Assessment Systems. He is also a professor of psychology but started out studying history – which may explain his interest in how early human beings organised themselves and how we have become more hierarchical and structured as societies ever since the advent of agriculture – and the impact […]
Hubert Joly on The Heart of Business
Hubert Joly is the former chairman and CEO of Best Buy Co. He took on the role when the company was considered in danger of failing and turned it around with a dramatic transformation through his ‘People First’ approach. Prior to his Best Buy Co job, Joly had worked at McKinseys and then increasingly senior […]
Leading Strategic Alignment – Jonathan Trevor – Oxford Saïd Business School
We know that the best aligned enterprises are also the highest performing enterprises—the most change ready, and the most resilient. We must—says Saïd Business School’s Dr Jonathan Trevor—therefore be developing within our corporations, the leadership capabilities required to achieve that strategic alignment, as a matter of urgency. In this webinar Jonathan Trevor opens up this […]
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Global Table Conversation #8: Alice Bromage and the Black Mambas on Resilience, Leadership and Growth
What can we learn from an all-female anti-poaching unit that transfers to organisations globally? Alice Bromage, a former British army officer, who has worked closely with the Black Mambas, takes us through a detailed look at the complexities of their wider context and how by focusing on and ‘doing the right thing’ with the team […]
Trust & Clarity Conversation with Emmanuel Mankura and Krishna Thapa
Emmanuel Mankura is a Maasai Elder and Krishna Thapa a Nepali Gurkha, as well as UK special forces senior mountain leader and Everest summiteer. In this two hour conversation with a group from the Ideas for Leaders community they discuss the importance of Trust and Clarity in a leadership role, and how these issues have shaped […]
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Global Table Conversation #2: Krishna Thapa and Alice Bromage
Subscriber only Content – ‘Conversations from around the Global Table’ are participative online events, where we bring guests who have different perspectives on the world, through their cultural background or work and life experiences, to share some stories and thinking with us. Audience members are able to directly ask questions of the guest and share reflections on the discussion […]
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Prof Ranga Ramanujam on Leading in Volatile and Uncertain TImes
At times of uncertainty and volatility people look for tangible, believable, leadership—and today we are living in unprecedented times that will truly test organizational leadership to the full. The current Covid-19 crisis and the inevitable economic turbulence that will follow are bound to set extraordinary challenges for business leaders?both in managing the unpredictable day-to-day and […]
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David Nour on Strategy Visualization
Successful implementation is the litmus test for any business strategy—and the key to that is making sure people across your organization are fully engaged, focused, and committed. Visualization is a vital tool for business leaders needing to communicate strategy to their people in a way that facilitates effective strategy execution. It’s a new way of communicating strategy—turning data points into a compelling […]
Bob Chapman – Proving the Benefits of People-Centred Leadership
Bob Chapman is the CEO of Barry-Wehmiller Inc and author, with Raj Sisodia, of the best-selling book ‘Everybody Matters’ that describes the story of how he inherited a failing organisation and after several years unsuccessfully applying traditional cost-cutting methodologies to turn it around, he pivoted after a couple of epiphany moments, to a leadership approach and […]
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