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Tag Archives: engagement
Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading
by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky; Harvard Business School Press, 2002 Leadership on the Line is oft-cited by tenured leaders as a favoured text, perhaps because the book offers a highly empathetic perspective. Heifetz and Linsky argue that leadership is a dangerous undertaking. They encourage those who want to “step forward, make a difference, take the heat, and survive to delight in the fruits of your labor.” This book helps leaders face and mitigate … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 7: Winter 2010, Leadership
Tagged book, engagement, Leadership, Public Policy, risk, Social Innovation, stakeholders
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How the Best Indian Companies Drive Performance by Investing in People
by Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra V. Singh, and Michael Useen. The Harvard Business Review, March 2010. Practices associated with effective leadership vary across cultures. This piece from the Harvard Business Review highlights the ways leaders of highly-regarded Indian companies focus their energies. The findings are based on interviews of 105 leaders from 98 of the largest Indian-based companies, such as Tata, Reliance, Aventis, and Infosys. Unlike Western CEOs who often claim that cleverness at … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, Issue 7: Winter 2010
Tagged Corporate Responsibility, engagement, India, Leadership
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Strategy Tools for a Shifting Landscape
by Michael G. Jacobides, Harvard Business Review; January- February 2010. Engaging, or perhaps re-engaging, employees in strategy discussions is the focus of a recent piece in the Harvard Business Review. If you’ve ever sat through a tiresome PowerPoint loaded with graphs and spreadsheets meant to simulate strategic direction, you may identify with its main point: the way we discuss strategy needs to change. The author asserts that we live in an environment of incessant change. … Continue reading
The Big Conversation
A status report by Sandy Blackburn-Wright, Emerging Leaders for Social Change; 2010. The Big Conversation – an initiative of the Emerging Leaders for Social Change – was established in response to a void in the 2009 discussions surrounding the Global Financial Crisis. Leaders were debating the efficacy of the stimulus package, regulatory reform and other measures seemingly without reference to the values that had led us to the situation in the first place. Many believe … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 6: Autumn 2010
Tagged Australia, Emerging Leaders for Social Change, engagement, Ethics, Leadership, Public Policy, social inclusion, stakeholders, The Big Conversation, values
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Participation Society
Griffith Review, Edition 24, by Griffith University, 2009. CSI’s very own Peter Shergold and Cheryl Kernot appear in the Griffith Review’s recent issue on participation society. Both essays are reminders that structural innovation is at work in Australian society. Kernot’s essay, ‘A quiet revolution,’ is a personal reflection on a shift she sees towards a society which puts: “social value at its core.” Kernot writes about social entrepreneurship which she believes is already reshaping people’s … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 3: Autumn 2009
Tagged Australia, Australian Government, engagement, marketplace, participation society, Public Policy, social entrepreneurship, social inclusion, Social Innovation, social networks, trust
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