Former captain of the nuclear submarine USS Santa Fe, David Marquet, talks about how he developed the Intent-based Leadership approach while on the ship to enable devolved decision-making in complex situations – and how it can be applied to all complex environments […]
Podcast Subject: Leadership
Prof Noel Tichy on Action Learning at GE
Noel Tichy is a true management guru, having co-authored books with the likes of Warren Bennis and Paul Danos. He was a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and is best known for his development in the 1980s of the action learning methods now used widely across management education programs. He introduced action […]
Charles Irvine on Conflict
Conflict is a ‘natural resource’ says Charles Irvine, a specialist consultant on managing conflict and who started his career working with Sout Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. If handled well conflict situations can lead to really positive outcomes, with opposing sides interacting and collaborating more and the creative tension of conflict enabling innovation. If left […]
Joseph Pistrui on Nextsensing
Joseph Pistrui, professor of entrepreneurial management at IE Business School notes that the American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty observed “In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy”, and that some 20 years after Getty died, Jeff Bezos, the founder and driving light behind Amazon reflected similarly “What is dangerous is not to […]
Steven D’Souza on Not Knowing
Leaders are typically expected to have an answer for every situation. But in today’s complex and fast moving world that clearly is not possible. Steven D’Souza is a consultant and executive coach and author of several acclaimed books on leadership – including the one discussed in this podcast titled Not Knowing. An expert in psychology, […]
Sydney Finkelstein on Superbosses
Professor Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Ivy League Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is a regular laureate in the bi-annual Thinkers50 ranking of top management thinkers – and his research focus is on the strength and weaknesses of executive talent; why capable leaders can make bad […]