Media & Non Technical Articles

Policy and performance: who should decide?

Schools week debate

 Letter: Why is it consultancies don’t preach what they practise? 

Glen O’Hara’s account of management consultancies reshaping British universities will surprise no one who has watched […]

Letter: How staff are treated by line managers is key to performance

The House of Commons education committee’s recent report “Further Education and Skills” criticising Skills England for […]

Random selection for top jobs is not a crazy idea.

Have you become bored reading headlines that lament the absence of diversity at the top of […]

If you want to know why people are reluctant to be leaders, ask them.

When senior leaders are looking for talented staff to promote into management, they often assume that […]

Diversity is critical for effective crisis leadership: The UK government’s groupthink would never cut it in the board room of a high-performing company.

In his bestselling book on the Spanish Flu, The Great Influenza, John Barry implores governments in […]

Are bad bosses as commonplace as we imagine?

The topic of leadership has inspired hundreds of books and thousands of articles from academics in […]

Bullying bosses should examine their own ego problems

The other word of the moment — coronavirus aside — is bullying. The main alleged culprit […]

How the coronavirus pandemic has tested UK doctors’ leadership skills.

We know that hospitals perform better, on average, when they are led by doctors. But being […]

Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them.

It’s a concrete fact that women earn less than men do. The true gender pay-gap is not […]

If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work.

“People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses,” according to an old saw. Our research suggests there’s […]

Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors.

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against […]