Bouncebackability encapsulates Adaptability, Flexibility and Resilience perfectly!
Failure can often be the seed for subsequent success. I will never forget the description given by Iain Dowie for why the football team he managed (Crystal Palace) achieved promotion to the English Premier League in England in 2004 just one year after they lost the play-off final the year before. It was...
Understanding Collective Leadership
Understanding Collective Leadership What is Collective Leadership? Leaders working Collectively together The overriding definition of Collective leadership, based on experience and research, is: “ a form of leadership based on shared values for achieving impact in the public interest, rather than individual leadership based on self-interest” In this article, I explain how we think about and promote collective leadership. Using...
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...
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...
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...
