Melcrum business breakfast Date: February 21st, 2008 Venue: Brewery, Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD Time: 8.15am-11.15am Cost: FREE attendance (exclusive only to Hub members) Presentations from: Mike Love Communications Director, Major Programmes Executive, BT speaking on ‘Helping leaders be more authentic’ Melcrum’s research shows that contrary to popular Read more…
As promised, here are the various references from yesterday’s presentation at the internal communications conference: The Neuroscience of Leadership from Strategy+Business magazine – a good start on how to change behaviours Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein – an excellent book that should be required reading Read more…
Normal blogging returns next week, now the book chapter’s done and out of the way. And, at last, the ebook on leadership is ready. This being the first, I seriously underestimated the amount of time it would take to turn my chunks of words into a nicely-designed piece of work Read more…
Dave Snowden’s on form here, looking at how autocratic managers and the dark side of management consultancy have discovered how to keep their penny and still eat the bun. The way it works is this. You spend a lot of money putting in control systems based on idealised process flows Read more…
The current edition of Strategic Communications Management is due out this week, with a short piece on communications and leadership. As I was writing it, I realised that 700 words only allowed for a fraction of what I wanted to say on the subject. So I’ve expanded the piece into Read more…
I’m currently reading Patricia Shaw’s “Changing Conversations in Organizations” after John Moore recommended it to me. I’m finding it challenging and great – in particular for the emphasis it puts on the non-formal networks in organisations. It ties in with a conversation I had last week with Flemming Madsen of Read more…