A blog by visiting Fellow, Dr Helen Britton It asks the question: How can I strengthen my resilience beyond a survival capacity to make my organisation more sustainable? By making several suggestions, it highlights the need to orient our thinking and to recognise the interconnected elements of building a resilience mindset. Resilience is the ‘the artContinue reading “Strengthening resilience for a more sustainable future”
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Navigating the Business Landscape of 2063: Key Issues on the Horizon
Founded in September 1983, The Open University Business School officially celebrates 40 years this year. As part of our 40th anniversary reflections, we asked our Business School students and alumni what they think the global business landscape might look like in another 40 years. This entry comes from Rachel Blackburn, Director at US2U Consulting and MBAContinue reading “Navigating the Business Landscape of 2063: Key Issues on the Horizon”
IoD women’s leadership conference 2023 piece: You can’t be what you can’t see
The challenge we face today at work and across our lives is the modern pace of change. There are many reasons why the world has changed. Our ageing workforce; technology advancements; COVID and the increased awareness of mental health impacts following the pandemic resulting in a mind shift change in how we live and work.Continue reading “IoD women’s leadership conference 2023 piece: You can’t be what you can’t see”
Does being an introvert hamper your chances of making senior management?
Leaders don’t always have to be loud and bombastic. There is value in being an introvert, says Dr Jacqueline Baxter, a management professor at The Open University Business School. There have been countless articles on extroversion and its links to senior management. One article showed 98% of top executives scoring high or very high onContinue reading “Does being an introvert hamper your chances of making senior management?”
‘Why Leaders need to be Systems Thinkers’ webinar – recording available
Our webinar on ‘Why Leaders need to be Systems Thinkers’ took place on 30 November. If you missed it or want to watch again, the webinar is now available to view on demand. Watch the webinar Listen to what our speakers had to say about the importance of management leadership in systems thinking, using theContinue reading “‘Why Leaders need to be Systems Thinkers’ webinar – recording available”
‘Why Leaders need to be Systems Thinkers’ webinar
Our free online webinar on Monday 30 November 2015, will introduce video highlights from the Business Perspectives roundtable on Why Leaders need to be Systems Thinkers. The topic is based around the winter of 2014/15 when the UK NHS experienced its biggest ever “winter crises” within the Accident and Emergency (A&E) care system. A crisisContinue reading “‘Why Leaders need to be Systems Thinkers’ webinar”
What is Change Management?
Leadership webinar – 14 May 2013
What is political astuteness? How do public leaders stand the test of tough times? Why is optimism important in inspiring hope? These questions were answered in the Leadership webinar held on 14 May 2013, in which you can see four videos capturing the highlights from the Leadership Masterclass on ‘Leadership in Tough Times: Confronting Complexity andContinue reading “Leadership webinar – 14 May 2013”
Now is the time to invest in NHS leaders
Guest blogger: Karen Lynas, Head of Delivery/Deputy Managing Director at NHS Leadership Academy “With the NHS facing huge challenges in emergency, acute and primary care, finances squeezed and a new commissioning landscape to navigate, now is the perfect time to invest in developing leaders.” What is the thing you wish you had known before youContinue reading “Now is the time to invest in NHS leaders”
Leaders, is your organisation strategy-less?
Guest blogger: Alex Wright, Lecturer in Strategic Management at The Open University Business School. Research I have been conducting recently along with that of my colleague, Professor Peet Venter of UNISA in South Africa, has thrown up an interesting finding – the existence of the strategy-less organisation. As strategy researchers, we tend to assume thatContinue reading “Leaders, is your organisation strategy-less?”
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