Posts Tagged ‘academic leadership’
A pivotal time for business school leaders
Leadership is a concept in perpetual evolution, a mobile target. Being adaptable is, therefore, crucial to effectively navigate the ever-changing political, economic, and cultural contexts. Even though people in leading positions are often well prepared and endowed for the required level of adaptability, the last couple of months have taken the demands on our leaders…
Read MoreRelevance of academy in pandemic times
Armando Dal Colletto, the EFMD EDAF Committee Member and Academic Dean of iPL – Institute of Performance and Leadership, invites the academia to integrate and correlate knowledge in order to create new discoveries to confront the VUCA world in its various forms. All the impacts that this pandemic has caused in society and specifically in academia…
Read MoreForty days into lockdown: Adam Smith Business School resource gives forty insights into the realities of working during Covid-19
New ways of working have arrived without warning, and they have arrived with no preparation. There is no time to adapt, there is just time to start. Here is a chance for us all to pause, listen and connect with others who are similarly navigating work and non-work lives: a reminder that while we might…
Read MoreWho’d be a Digital Dean?
Professor Heather McLaughlin, PVC/Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University is positive about the new reality for universities and about their continuity to attract students if we can get things right. We are the midst of a global crisis and the world is suddenly a very different place. It’s a digital…
Read MoreHow to Build New-age Learning Ecosystem?
IFIM – EFMD International Conclave on Learning Ecosystem held on 18-19 February 2020 engaged with the new challenges and ways to build the new-age learning ecosystems In this fast-evolving world, traditional approaches to the learning ecosystem are becoming outdated. With the changing digital environment in a complex VUCA world, the need of the hour is…
Read MoreSchool Leadership and COVID-19: Making Lemonade or Doing More of the Same?
School LEADERSHIP is more important now than ever before. The COVID-19 has changed schools’ reality in general and the concept of teaching in particular. School leaders are looking for a new world of teaching that will cater to the diverse needs of their students. Learning to operate in challenging and unpredictable circumstances, principals need to…
Read MoreLeadership for the Anthropocene
Pause for thought At a recent academic conference I attended, one of the most thought-provoking sessions (at least for me) concerned ‘organization studies and the Anthropocene’. It was a call to arms for organizational scholars to engage through their research with the myriad ways in which human activities have impacted on the planet and for…
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