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Leadership requires a long-term approach to fitness
Leadership requires a long-term approach to fitness roundearthleadership.com
This time year legions of executives start off with noble intentions to get fit. Many are driven to shed excess kilos piled on by eating too many mince pies and Cadbury Roses. For others it is brought on by malaise and guilt...

Rethinking Leadership is now Sustainable Leadership Development
Some of you pointed out that the group really needed the words 'sustainable' and 'leadership' in its name, since 'Rethinking leadership' ...

Hyperbole, Leadership and Steve Jobs: old paradigm, transformational leader or just an amazing innovator?
I greatly admired the way in which Steve Jobs revolutionised just about every industry he touched, but I am finding it a little ...
How Steve Jobs Reinvented Leadership. forbes.com
by Gianpiero Petriglieri After revolutionizing the computer, music and publishing industries in his lifetime, Steve Jobs’ death has pointed out that he may have transformed just one more—the leadership industry. Spokespersons...

Scientific evidence becoming steadily more unreliable
Thought provoking blog from colleague Dr John Briffa citing evidence of an increasing tendency for the scientific community to churn out ...
A health-focused blog that makes sense of science, and offers accurate, trustworthy and practical advice about all aspects of healthy living.

Leadership as "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"...Hay's climate map
My attention was recently drawn by the feedback given to Hay Group's company climate map by various members of one of the Linkedin ...
Hay Group - WW | Flash file haygroup.com

Business school academic speaks out against false scientification of management
Morgen Witzel of Essex Uni marks centenary of Taylor's Scientific Management & its destructive legacy
This year sees the centenary of the publication of the most influential management book of all time, Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management. Taylor's view was that the problems of management could be...

Key themes from rethinking leadership seminar in May
As promised, here is a summary of the key themes that emerged from my discussions with those of you who attended the seminar on May ...

CEOs in the vanguard of sustainable business and leadership
One of the themes that regularly emerges in our conversations with senior HR folk is the business case for moving towards more ...
guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
Outgoing Marks & Spencer chairman says business models must be geared towards sustainability and a changing...

Corporate Responsibility Leadership Series (Part 4): Integrated Reporting and Perspectives thesustainabilityjournal.blogspot.com
A Blog Journal for Sustainability and Corporate...

sustainable leadership - old wine in new bottles?
One of the debates during the seminar on May 18th concerned the novelty and radical nature of the sustainable leadership proposition. ...

The leader as a convenor of conversations
The leadership role is not about trying to control the organisation. It is primarily about engaging people in conversation – sometimes ...

Missing link to FT article about Unilever's CEO Paul Polman
Linked-in obviously has a quota system for the number of links you can attach to these posts! Here is the missing link about Paul ...

Developing sustainable leadership workshop, October 10 to 14, 2011
Bill and I are leading a 5 day workshop in October on the everday practice of sustainable leadership. The workshop explores how ...

A sustaining vision
Excellent article in the latest edition of People Management on the shift towards sustainable business, as well as an editorial from Rob ...
Climate change: Join the green shift - People Management Magazine... peoplemanagement.co.uk
The UK government has committed to bold new targets to reduce the rate of climate change, and some businesses are becoming champions of sustainability. Can employers save the planet and improve the bottom line too?

Radical shift
Phil Whiteley's new blog, 'Radical Shift' looks at how to combine sustainability with business success, and the very different politics ...

Leadership: The bland leading the bland? Time to get radical
More heat than light in this article that ably demonstrates the divergent views on the subject of leadership. But - with the exception ...
