This week on Edelman Editions, Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy meets with author, academic and leadership consultant, Andrew St.George to discuss leadership, and its six core values – as described in St.George’s most recent book, Royal Navy Way of Leadership. Following a three year stint with the Navy, where he was granted unlimited access to all levels, Andrew St George wrote a book detailing the culture and leadership of the Royal Navy. The universal nature of this highly efficient and respected organisation means that leadership skills within the Royal Navy and easily transferable to the
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Director of Employee Engagement, Nick Howard wrote an article around Edelman’s Trust Barometer for the July edition of Melcrum’s Strategic Communication Management (subscribers only). Have a look at the Slideshare below or download the PDF and tell us what you think: Nick Howard: Building Trust in Leadership from Edelman_UK Nick appeared on Edelman Editions’ podcast recently to discuss Employee Engagement, have a listen to his insights. Downloads Building Trust in Leadership 536kb Nick Howard, Director of Employee Engagement, Edelman Nick is a communications professional with over 15 years experience advising business leaders of blue chip
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Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson recently stepped down amid accusations that he included a fake computer science degree on his CV. So what's the difference between a little embellishment on your CV, and something a bit more serious that could lose you your dream job or even breaking the law
Read More »“Let’s abolish capitalism and replace it with something nicer” ran a famous jokey banner at a London demonstration. The gag reflects the apparent impotence of protestors to change anything very much. Not many people are speaking up publicly for “business as usual” right now. But business as usual is more or less what we see reported on the evening news and in particular in the financial pages. Some modest and potentially fruitful attempts at reform are mooted. But on the whole inertia rules the day. Capitalism. Big word. Meaningless to most people, who probably rarely
Read More »Spare a thought, if only briefly, for Ed Miliband. As he makes final preparations for his speech to the Labour party conference in Liverpool tomorrow, he is not short of advice. This needs to be “the speech of his life”, we are told. He must take his listeners on “a journey”. Sure, it’s a pretty big moment for the newish Labour leader. He’s been in the job for a year now, and it is time for him to assert his identity. He will have the nation’s attention, for a short while at least. It is a
Read More »I have been in touch with Tom Peters recently, who (as usual) shared thoughts, wisdom and encouragement in equal measure. (I am an unashamed fan of the guy. They say “don’t meet your heroes”, but after having lunch with him a couple of years ago we have stayed in touch, and I have had no cause to adjust my view of him. No-one over the past 30 years has done more to get managers to think harder about what it is they do.) I am passing on just a few of his zingers from a presentation he gave
Read More »Unemployment. Huge budget deficits. Healthcare reform. Educational standards. Climate change. Civil unrest in the middle east. The rise of Asia. Political leaders in Britain and the US have a lot to think about right now. So what are the big issues that are making the news today? In London the political classes are debating how offensive a quip made to a woman MP by the prime minister, David Cameron, really was. Quoting a popular TV commercial, he urged the person in question to “calm down, dear”. He repeated this instruction to “calm down” several times during
Read More »The good people at Management Today magazine - where, full disclosure, I am a contributing editor – held a celebration in London last night to mark their decades-long commitment to high quality photography, and in particular portraiture. Follow the link above to find some superb examples of the work of Harry Borden, getting up close and personal with some distinguished captains of industry. Of course the media will always focus on bosses. Journalists are trained to tell stories through people. We use the image of the leader to represent the whole company. Grammarians might regard that as an
Read More »I am just getting my breath back after a highly stimulating weekend spent at Portmeirion, north Wales, home to Editorial Intelligence’s annual “Names not Numbers” (NNN) symposium*. The genius of this event is its breadth and range. This year we heard from an oceanographer, a historian, a financial guru, a bishop, a poet, a rabbi, a film-maker, businesspeople, politicians, journalists and assorted others. While there are the inevitable conference-going frustrations – of running out of time when some conversations or debates are just taking off, or of information overload requiring a lie-down or a walk on the
Read More »How blunt should a leader be with his or her organisation? If the facts are too scary, or too unsettling, then destructive panic may be the over-riding response, rather than anything more useful. On the other hand, mollycoddling a business, pretending that there is no crisis when in fact it is deep and urgent, is calamitous. Denial helps nobody – except the insolvency firms. To avoid disaster companies have to “confront the brutal facts”, as the management guru Jim Collins puts it. If the news is really bad a good leader does not hide it, but will try to explain how to
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