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Energising your business! A job for the top and all managers across the organisation

It is one of those classic interview questions for CEOs - what are your crucial challenges? When Justin King, CEO of Sainsbury’s, was interviewed for a Sunday Times article (13^TH January 2013), he mentioned that one facet of his style is to “exert energy”. That made my heart jump. Not only because it is one of the key themes I research or that I have spent more than 10 years helping organisations with this challenge but more so because I truly believe that IT IS…

THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

Failures in leadership have been the focus of many column inches in the press over the past three years with many coming under fire for a lack of motivational and ethical leadership.  So how do we turn the tide?  And how do we know what constitutes ‘good’ and ‘bad’ leadership?

The Henley-Aberdeen Partnership recently held a leadership debate to discuss these issues.  The Panel, comprising of Dr James Smith, Ex-Chairman of Shell; Brigadier George Louder, Director for Defence Intelligence Fusion Centre (Afghanistan) and head of 51^st (Scottish) Brigade; Dr Lesley Sawers, Chief Executive of the…