Category Archives: Leadership

Thoughts about effective leadership

The season of social value

Posted on 29 November 2011 by

By me on the Valoro blog, how social value is becoming the common sense of our time: The challenge of the social value agenda is not to reframe the business practices of the past decades in a new, more cuddly … Continue reading →

Posted in Leadership | Tagged | Leave a comment

Focus ruthlessly to deliver your purpose

Posted on 6 September 2011 by

My latest piece for Arts Professional discusses what prevents organisations concentrating on their purpose. *** Few organisations know how to focus on their core purpose. The technology company, Apple, is one. Its chief executive, Steve Jobs, is famously obsessive about … Continue reading →

Posted in Leadership | Tagged , | Leave a comment

When spin is not enough

Posted on 16 July 2011 by

I’ve written more on News International, apropos Murdoch’s apology: In the case of News International, quite apart from the responsibility the executives bear for fostering a culture which led to criminal activity, one can reasonably ask of the volte face … Continue reading →

Posted in Leadership | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Thank you and good riddance: phone hacking and social value

Posted on 14 July 2011 by

For some months I’ve had occasional thoughts of writing a blog post about the phone hacking scandal at News International. The reason I never got round to doing so until now is instructive. At some level, I doubted the point … Continue reading →

Posted in Leadership | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Who has created more social value: the charity or the business?

Posted on 4 July 2011 by

I’m a bit late in cross-posting my latest blog post for Valoro VGW. The Economist draws on the centenaries of two major institutions – the technology company IBM and the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation – to assess whether the commercial organisation … Continue reading →

Posted in Leadership | Tagged | Leave a comment