The Journey to Leadership3: Recent and Selected Archive Posts
June 2021
A Personal Journey
"Stephen Brookes briefly describes his early experience of understanding leadership contexts. I often reflect on what I now know was my first experience of leadership challenges in December 1971. As a young (boy) sailor (Morse code operator) in the Persian Gulf, I communicated with a Trucial Oman Scouts operator. I struggled to understand why his morse...
January 2021
A post-pandemic paradigm for public leaders?
What is the future for public leadership? This discussion seeks to explain what public leadership means and explores its challenges for the future. In particular, we will consider this within the context of a potential post-pandemic paradigm, responding to an unprecedented challenge that is taxing public leaders' minds and practices across the globe. The discussion will suggest...
October 2020
The disconnect between the art of negotiation and the language of Brexit
Teenager or tank, mouse or leader, compromise or concession? Reflecting on the theory and the art of negotiation and the language of Brexit: exploring the inevitable disconnect. This article represents the author's personal views and makes no argument for either 'leave' or 'remain' or support of 'deal' or 'no-deal' other than by reference to informed good...
