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Articles and longer-reads to trigger new thinking.
Balance, moderation, trust
How different personality types cope with an always-on culture
By John Hackston for the Harvard Business Review
In praise of extreme moderation
By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox for the Harvard Business Review
Closing the latch: the importance of trust
By Professor Simone Buitendijk on Medium
Resilience is robustness and agility. It’s what it takes to thrive, not just survive. Sound familiar?
By Louise Clifton for Invisible Grail
Compassion can change the world
By Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds, for Medium
Read or listen
“Universities can and should be at the forefront of this new way of thinking and acting. We are well positioned to lead by example and to start shifting the dial in the direction of institutional compassion. We are communities full of people who are inherently driven by the wish to contribute to a better world. Our outputs are not financial; our main product is knowledge; we teach large groups of people to be the next, more enlightened and considerate generation of global citizens; and local community work and global collaboration is at the heart of the majority of what we do.“
The problem with perfectionism: how trying to reach the unreachable is making us unhappy
“…learning is a journey not a destination, and perfect is an illusion.”
By Professor Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds on Medium
How I approach the toughest decisions at work
Our choices reflect and determine who we are
By Barack Obama on Medium
Potential blindspots in leading remote teams
By Ben Foulkes for Corporate Rebels
Good leadership is about asking good questions
By John Hagel III for the Harvard Business Review
To have the most impact, ask the right questions
By Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe for the Harvard Business Review
By Alex Liu for the Harvard Business Review
It’s time to embrace not just the lifelong but the life-wide dimension of learning
By Katja Römer for the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning
Universities as social impact investors: the snowball effect of value
By Richard Hazenberg, Professor of Social Innovation, University of Northampton and Dave Gorman, Director of Social Responsibility & Sustainability, University of Edinburgh for Big Society Capital
The three problems of power
By Margaret Heffernan on Medium
“The language says it all. ‘Working your way up’, ‘climbing the ladder’ are ways of describing successful careers: emerging from the dank basement to the wide bright vistas atop a hierarchy.“
Part two: Silence and blindness
“One of the biggest traps of power is that the way that others respond to it. Most believe they get ahead by pleasing or, at least, not openly disagreeing. That means they contribute less than they might. This silence suppresses concerns; it also suppresses good ideas.“
Part three: Distance and dehumanisation
“Experimentation showed that people given power demonstrate more stereotyped thinking. Further from the action, reinforced by a sense of their own capability, the combination of power, optimism and abstraction made them more confident of their own judgement. The more cut off from others, the more certain they were of their decisions about people and detail they did not know.“
Cracking the code for sustained collaboration
By Francesco Gino for the Harvard Business Review
How to give feedback with a growth-mindset approach
By Emma Briggs for the Neuroleadership Institute
We need leaders who can link local citizens with our universities
What does the new civic engagement leadership skill set look like?
By Dr Paul Gentle for Wonkhe
Interviews with leaders
Professor Leah Weiss expert in compassionate leadership, talks about why we need this now and how we can make it happen.
Tao Warburton talks about her experience of leading Bucks New University Students’ Union.
Lucy Butters on Cultural Intelligence, inclusivity and unlocking potential in every corner of HE.
Dr Paul Gentle on finding greater self-determination and agency to build a better world.
Julian Stodd on social leadership and how we can tap into power that’s shared, not owned.
Professor Janet Haddock-Fraser on championing sustainability through leadership.
Helena Clayton discusses love in the context of work, and unlocking more of it in ourselves and for each other.
Professor Kamil Omoteso explains why sincerity matters, and how we can put others at the heart our leadership practice.
Louise Clifton shares what motivates her in her quest to enable higher education to build a better world.
Make your meetings a safe space for honest conversation
By Paul Axtell for the Harvard Business Review
By Louise Clifton for Invisible Grail
By Daniel Goleman via Linked In
Read the research
Bradley P. Owens and David R. Hekman for the Academy of Management journal
Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development
Research from McKinsey & Company
Leadership and love: The heart of the future of work
Helena Clayton for Roffey Park Institute
Leadership in Culturally Significant Times
Venka Purushothaman, Provost at LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore on why we need cultural leadership, now more than ever.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
By Helen Teague for Invisible Grail
Immediately improve your talent development with the SBI Model
By the Centre for Creative Leadership
From A-Z: Writing that connects
Gathering together 25 insights from communications expert John Simmons, here’s how we can use writing to deepen our connections with the people that we work with, care for and lead.
Reimagined: Purposeful Leadership, now or never?
By Louise Clifton for Invisible Grail
By Dr Graham Holden for Invisible Grail
“As long as your arm!” Breaking free of a short-term mindset
By Dr Paul Gentle for Invisible Grail