Why We Need Human-Centred Leaders – An Introduction
Leaders are facing the challenges presented by a rapidly changing working environment.
Cross-cultural Leadership in times of crisis
The pandemic changes priorities It takes a worldwide pandemic to focus the minds of leaders on what is really important to their employees. When individuals fear for their own lives, they are in survival mode and their priorities dramatically change.
The Lived Experience model of Work
Social and technological changes over the last decade have had a major influence on the way we approach work and our wider lives. The boundaries between work and home have been significantly blurred by mobile technology and flexible working arrangements have become much more common.
Leadership in the era of self-managed organisations
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided us with a unique opportunity to stand back and look at the world of work in a new light. Many assumptions about the way we structure organisations and how we run them have come into question. The role of leaders is under more scrutiny than ever before.
A mad experiment proves how crazy our work patterns had become
We now have six months experience of enforced home working for almost half the working population of the UK (In April 2020, 46.6% of people in employment did some work at home according to the ONS). And it now looks like we are in for another six months. This is no longer a temporary diversion…
The productive leader
We are now experiencing an unprecedented disruption to working lives, from businesses closing and people being out of work, to people putting their lives on the line tackling the coronavirus crisis. Millions of people are now working from home and still managing to get the job done. All the conventional views on how, when and…
Successful Book Launch
Why are we suffering from stress and long hours working when digital technology was supposed to bring us a life of leisure? This was the question being answered by a line-up of speakers at Innovation Birmingham last week. The occasion was the launch of the new book “Conquering Digital Overload”. Five of the contributors to…
Peter Vogel appointed to new Chair at IMD
We were delighted to hear that Forum Partner Peter Vogel has been appointed as the holder of the new Debiopharm Chair for Family Philanthropy at the IMD business school, created thanks to a donation of several million Swiss francs by the biopharmaceutical company Debiopharm Group, based in Vaud, Switzerland. Professor Vogel will work in close…
Where are we more productive – Office or Home?
Almost every day we hear of yet another survey that ‘proves’ people are more productive when they are working from home, only to see other surveys that favour the office. It’s worth looking a bit closer at who is sponsoring or running the ‘research’ and how objective it really is. Recently, a survey of 5,500…
Good Work is still a leadership issue
The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices has just been published in the UK. This has taken a sensible view of the way work is evolving and is proposing that legislation should catch up with what is now happening in the real world. We have seen a rapid growth in non-standard working patterns and the…