Challenge your perspective
Take a different view and embrace a counter voice to the status quo
In praise of extreme moderation
By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox for the Harvard Business Review
Responding to climate change in teaching
By Alina Congreve and Iain Cross for Wonkhe
By Raf Uzar for Be The Ripple
“Power is fluid, recalcitrant, and ephemeral. We all have it, possess it, and share it to a greater or lesser extent. A purported perception of its lack can never be used as an excuse for not doing good or helping others. However, those with more power no doubt have a greater responsibility for putting it to good use.“
A bit of Optimism
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.“
Is it time to think about leading with emotions that connect – like love – rather than those that disconnect?
‘Liven up’ leaders: Time to innoculate against zombification? Or not?
By Professor Stella Jones-Devitt and Dr Liz Austen for Invisible Grail
Reimagining the future of skills: what do young people think?
By Henrietta H. Fore and Robert E. Moritz for the World Economic Forum
By Professor Liz Cleaver, Dr Alastair Robertson and Dr Fiona Smart for Invisible Grail
By Louise Clifton for Invisible Grail
Is it time for a revolution in higher education?
By Louise Clifton for Invisible Grail
Interviews to challenge the status quo
Helena Clayton on love and leadership
Love. A word that has the power to make us glow on the inside and out, but that can also set our teeth on edge. Especially if we think about love at work. But why is this? Something so fundamentally human, so powerful. Yet we put it in a box – out of sight – for hours a day, days a week, weeks a year, whilst we’re ‘at work’.
I ask Helena what love means in the context of work, and how we might begin to unlock more of it in ourselves and for each other.
Read the research: Leadership and love: The heart of the future of work
Julian Stodd on social leadership
Power comes from what you share, not what you control. This is the message from Julian Stodd, proponent of social leadership and advocate for greater humility and humanity in organisational culture and leadership. These are the qualities that will enable organisations to adapt and succeed in the new social age.
But what is social leadership and the new social age? And what behaviours and cultures should we be championing to help us navigate this world?
Playfulness at work: fun, vexing, helpful?
By Paul Gentle for Invisible Grail
By Paul Gentle for Invisible Grail
We need leaders that can link local citizens with our universities
What does the new civic engagement leadership skill set look like?
By Paul Gentle for Wonkhe
Student engagement 2.0: partners, collaborators or something else entirely?
By Louise Clifton for Invisible Grail
Taking up Generation Z’s challenge on our future
By Paul Gentle for Invisible Grail