General Leadership

How to keep research afloat during an administrative stint

Published in Nature: 8th October 2024 Leading a university department can slow a researcher’s output to […]

Amanda Goodall on – AI Governance with Dr Darryl

Welcome to “Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders,” in this podcast we discuss leadership. Follow the wisdom […]

Amanda Goodall on The Power of Expert Leaders – The Value Creators

In our ongoing series investigating leadership in business – coming from the skeptical perspective of “Is […]

Do teaching fellowships actually improve teaching?

If you want to get promoted in UK academia, you will probably need to apply 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 […]

Feline followers and “umbrella carriers”: Department chairs’ influence on faculty job satisfaction and quit intentions – Research Policy

Management quality at the department level is central to research and teaching performance in universities. This […]

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 […]

Business School Briefing: Financial literacy campaign and the next FT ranking.

Jonathan Black, director of the University of Oxford’s careers service, has caught up with people who […]

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 […]

How common are bad bosses? – Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

Bosses play a fundamental role in workplaces. Yet almost nothing is known about an important and […]

Bullying bosses should examine their own ego problems

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