Author: Dr Stephen Gibbs
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From Churchill to Covid to the collective good: in a media-saturated now a voice from elsewhere
IN a media saturated moment here are some tangents that offer a ‘voice from elsewhere’. With the leadership space being dominated by the Immediate Actions of crisis leaders this is in the spirit of dialogue-on-the-margins which travels a little more slowly through this period. There is a suggestion here that a ‘dialogical approach’ is useful…
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Avoiding organisational burnout whilst increasing your profits: through balancing leadership and management
ONE very successful CEO said to me that every now and then he enters his office, shuts the door, drops the blind and does nothing all day and then goes home. As shocking as that is to a workforce who can’t do that, or can’t do it as easily, the truth is that often when…
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Where will The North find its authority?: In the soft power (Nordpolitik) of British institutions
AUTHORITY is not what it once was. In 1950s Britain it was located within social hierarchies, collectivised industries and nation-based politics. Efforts to distribute that power via popular culture were successful. My four older sisters took to Sixties culture in various forms. Our Edwardian, war-time and now late parents looked on mainly in bemusement, remaining…
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Regional economies leading the global post-Brexit charge: breaking free from the benevolent state through networked leadership
English philosopher Gillian Rosemary Rose died tragically young. Her thesis is that contemporary lives are functioning in ‘the broken middle’ between the ideal and real. My thesis increasingly is senior leadership is working in this space. Between ecology and economy, law and ethics (life), church and state, theory and practice, charisma and thought and so…
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Re-telling the business model narrative to capture new value: the CEO as revisionist narrator
WWII is high up the media schedules with this summer’s 75th Anniversary of D-Day. Listening to British journalist Richard Dimbleby reporting during the early hours of 6th June 1944 as British 6th Airborne Division aircraft take the first paratroops into action is breathtaking sound and text. The story of that war remains up for re-telling.…
