leadership: the art of motivating people to act towards achieving a common goal
On Leadership is a three-month-long blog project hosted by the Centre for Enterprise, meant to express different views about leadership. We have assembled a collection of posts from academics, business consultants and owners and social entprisers centred around leadership. Please take a look at what our notable contributors have to say!
Our contributors:
Andrew Broadhead
Head of Marketing
"Great leaders set and continually reinforce the desired behaviour from those whom they lead. These behaviours then become part of the fabric of the organisation..." read more
Anne Craig
Knowledge Transfer Adviser
Leadership
Leadership
"Leadership qualities are demonstrated by those who build--and work thorugh--effective teams, who inspire loyalty, respect and admiration from others and who possess strong personal abilities and skills in their chosen professional environment..." read more
Jane C. Barber
Business Coach
"At the core of the difference are the different behaviours exhibited by managers and leaders, as well as the way those individuals choose to motivate others. ..." read more
Emeritus Professor
Leadership
"Management and conformity are an old married couple whilst organisation and creativity often are seeking to elope in order to find a lasting partnership." read more
Julia Rouse
Deputy Director of the Centre for Enterprise
Working All Day and All Night?
"Well, let’s face it, running a small firm is very demanding, particularly at certain phases such as start-up. And, on average, business owners do work longer hours than employees. But working long hours does not necessarily equate with being productive." read more
Working All Day and All Night?
"Well, let’s face it, running a small firm is very demanding, particularly at certain phases such as start-up. And, on average, business owners do work longer hours than employees. But working long hours does not necessarily equate with being productive." read more
Business Consultant
Leadership--The Clue is in the Title
"Embrace diversity; engage people who are a counterpoint to you, having a shared vision is not the same as being of like minds. An organisation of like minds is less likely to challenge, less open to innovation and is more risk averse." read more
Personal and Professional Life Coach
Is Your Business a Dead Hamster?
"No matter how enthusiastic and motivated you are about creating and running your own business, it will be a waste of time unless you acknowledge that your business is alive and in need of continuous attention and support, or else it will die." read more
Knowledge Exchange Team Leader
Knowledge: Necessary for Leadership
"The most productive form of leadership would be to push within the system to mould it into a better system to resist from within changes that are not right ..." read more
Senior Enterprise Fellow
How Fashionable is Leadership?
"We should all develop the confidence to wear our own leadership label, and we must decide the moral and ethical value that is attached to it." read more
Tracy Townend
Founder and Director of Puddle Ducks
Thoughts on Leadership
"[G]ood leadership is about consistency of values and behaviours..." read more
A & W Co-founder
Lead Us Not Into Evil: How Empathy Is Prerequisite for Ethical Leadership
"[M]y take on leadership is that a leader who does not demonstrate empathy is a tyrant ..." read more
MMU Training Officer
Leading from the Centre
"Next time you feel frustrated at someone in your team or business who doesn’t seem able to take responsibility, take the opportunity to reflect and ask yourself whether you are so busy leading, that they feel they have no alternative but to follow." read more
Enterprise Partner
The Language of Confusion
"If a new era of enterprise and economic regeneration is really about innovation and finding new and more effective ways of doing things and genuinely engaging with the private sector then it needs to be exposed to as much new thinking and as many sources of ideas as possible." read more
