leadership
My Management MSc internship with K International
What is the organisational culture like? K International is a language service provider which provides services such as translation, localisation, transcription, and interpreting in more than 150 languages for organisations all over the world. Rather ...
Beast from the East – GDP damage
I thought I’d get my two-penneth in before the BBC News’ Kamal Ahmed pops up telling us how much damage the current arctic weather has caused to the economy! A study carried out in 2015 ...
Mission Command and “Turn the Ship Around” by Louis David Marquet
Turn the Ship Around’s main premise is that many organisations’ management techniques have created Leader-Follower environments, even in the US Navy it seems, and David Marquet sought to bust this approach and develop a Leader-Leader ...
Book Review: “The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results”
Basically, this book explains what “Mission Command” (subject of our on-going blogs) really is so that you can actually understand it, and start applying it on a practical basis. It also lines up beautifully with ...
Topic Night: Feminism – The Other “F” Word
I don’t have much in common with Katy Perry. We do share a country of citizenship and an affinity for Friday nights (though hers seem far more exciting than mine!) but I must admit, that ...
Welcome to Women in Leadership!
That’s me standing on that chair there. No, I’m not playing ‘the floor is lava’ in my business suit, I’m just a little vertically challenged and I had to find a way to talk over the crowd. ...