300 stories about leadership, and still collecting
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 9, 2010 5:02:57 PM
One of the main planks to our client approach is that, as part of each project, we work with willing people in the client organisation to give them the skills to continue the work long after we've left. There are two reasons for doing this that matter - an attitude of not creating a d …
The corporate memory-makers
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 12, 2010 10:35:50 AM
An interesting, if slightly underdone, article in today's FT: Management - The corporate memory-makers.
Leeds Castle Leadership - the communications piece
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 12, 2009 6:30:28 PM
Thanks to everyone at the Leeds Castle leadership event today - a whistle-stop challenge on communications, with an abbreviated Anecdote Circle thrown in. At the break a few of us were talking about The Future, Backwards and, naturally, I recommended Gary Klein's Sources of Power.
KCUK - Building a change management strategy
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 10, 2008 11:21:00 AM
Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's workshop at the KCUK conference. Various odds and sods off the back of the session:
Where do you allow dissent?
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 4, 2008 12:59:00 PM
I've recently been in a number of environments where everybody has been so keen to encourage positive discussions that I've ended up coming away with a flat, slightly unreal feeling - interesting conversations that never really reached any depth. It's reminded me of the big "hoorah" s …
Mythology, leaders and leadership
by Tony Quinlan on Oct 12, 2007 5:30:00 PM
Normal blogging returns next week, now the book chapter’s done and out of the way.
Changing Conversations in Organizations
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 11, 2006 10:30:00 AM
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 w …