Traducido con autorización del autor por: Roberto Bande GAME-IDEGA and Department of Economics University of Santiago de Compostela No voy a fingir que la universidad no sea otra cosa más que trabajo duro. En ocasiones he oído hacer el símil con la pertenencia a un gimnasio, en el que el simple hecho de pagar… Continue reading Cómo aprovechar de forma inteligente las clases
As you start to settle in at university, I hope you are making friends and having a fantastic time. There is so much you can gain from university but if you aren’t on top of the academic work, you can start to get worried about how you are going to perform in exams and assessments.… Continue reading Studying smarter by studying together.
Advice on how to start off in the best way at University.
(I wrote this on the International Day of the Midwife) On March 11th 2008, my wife Sally was pretty busy. About two weeks later than expected, she was giving birth to our son at home with two midwives caring for her and me hanging on for dear life. We (i.e. Sally) had decided on… Continue reading We don’t say thank you enough
This year I seem to have spent more time than ever in discussions about and leading development programmes in leadership. And so my attention has naturally been on quite an old debate: what is the difference between leadership and management. To be honest, I had thought that Warren Bennis probably started and finished this debate… Continue reading Is management dead?
On the morning after the speech made by Hilary Benn in the debate about intervention in Syria, I was asked by the website of a national newspaper to write 500 words analysing it in terms of the psychology of leadership. I asked how much they were going to pay and when they needed it. They never replied.… Continue reading Hilary Benn – that speech
At the moment I seem to find that I am being approached by businesses interested in helping their people make decisions on their own. This means returning to my work on decision-making I first started in the late 1990s when I worked with the emergency services on incident command. Later I used the same concepts… Continue reading How executives learn from Critical Incident Command
