Telling leaders how to manage their first hundred days has become an industry.  It’s an industry fuelled by investors and boards (and political parties)  that believe that by appointing a new leader you can almost instantly turn a company around and ...

There’s a quote from Sir Francis Drake that rings very true for organisational life today “There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”  Stand still ...

I loved an observation by Manfred Kets de Vries, Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD who said:  “When we talk about leaders, we too often think about an individual with specific abilities. But no one can do everything. Leadership is a team ...

In my last blog I asked whether in the new circumstances of the Fourth Industrial Revolution we still needed leaders and what should they look like? The answer I think is that we need leaders more than ever and we need more leaders more than ever, but ...

I spoke last week at the IACCM conference in Rome about leadership and what skills would be necessary for leadership in the future.  The new skills needed for leaders created considerable debate and discussion, so I thought I would share this thinking ...

I was delighted when I heard that Bradford has become a technology university. As the world’s leaders are struggling to manage the impact of technology – is this an opportunity for the University of Bradford School of Management to lead the world ...

For the first time since the Great Library at Alexandria burnt down, all human knowledge is now available in one place, thanks to the internet which gives us endless content, smart search engines and the ability to create queries in the form of questions.  ...

I am giving a talk at a compliance conference next month and looking at whether our legal system can cope with the speed of technology over-turning the world as we know it. A story this week has beautifully illustrated some of the challenges.  The celebrity ...

Have you ever had that moment when suddenly the things that you write, talk and worry about are happening to you? Surely they always happen to other people? I have been writing about artificial intelligence and my worry that business leaders don’t think ...

Recently I wrote a short article in the Financial Times which said that Business Schools needed to change radically if they were to be fit for the 21st century. I thought that all I would get from the schools would be pushback against the idea. Instead ...

Last week I spoke at Accenture’s International Woman’s Day conference. It was a great event, with a bunch of really interesting speakers. I’d been asked to speak on disruption, in particular the disruption that technology causes in business (I wrote ...

Innovation is today’s buzzword. Every CEO claims that his company is at the forefront of innovation – at least every CEO who wants to keep his or her job. Every politician talks about the need for his country to be innovative if it is to grow and ...