Doug Moran on Leadership Attributes and the Kipling factor
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Doug Moran on Oct 26, 2009 | 6 Comments

Creating a shared vision, is where real leadership is at according to co-authors and prominent academic researchers James Kouzes and Barry Posner in their book The Leadership Challenge.

Their view, is that being forward-looking and "envisioning exciting possibilities" as well as "enlisting others in a shared view of the future" is the key leadership attribute. This is the attribute that most distinguishes leaders from non-leaders.

Gina Abudi talks best practice strategies for Project Management
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Gina Abudi on Oct 24, 2009 | 0 Comments

Best practice around Project Management is a current hot topic.

As Ricardo Vargas, Chair of the Project Management Institute (PMI), said earlier this year at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Amsterdam, "the time is now for Project management".

ESI International, who earlier this year revealed their Top 10 Project Management Trends set to impact private

Guest Blog : Walking Your Talk - 5 Positive Effects
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Deanne Earle on Oct 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

In the social media world, getting traction, trust, followership and engagement is all about following the principles of Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me (to quote the title of Penny Power's great new book on the subject).

Doing the same in the complex, offline world of real business environments is all about knowing how to communicate and

Guest Blog : Marketing by Assumption
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Robert M Donnelly on Sep 21, 2009 | 1 Comments

Entrepreneurship is increasingly realised as a vital skill and a real hot topic. Here is a first in a series of guest blogs for Management Sushi from Robert M Donnelly looking at key issues around entrepreneurship. Robert is an author, prolific writer and entrepreneur. He is also Editor of the Entrepreneurial CEO column for Chief Executive Magazine as well as a Professor at Rushmore University teaching on MBA and MS programmes.

Survival of the Fastest : An interview with Google
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Aug 22, 2009 | 1 Comments

In the midst of the full-blown global financial crisis last April, Google, telegraph.co.uk and London Business School joined forces to launch an innovative thought leadership channel for business leaders. Survival of the Fastest, hosted on YouTube, duly went live. Designed as an online thought leadership community for business leaders, the new content-rich YouTube channel would be able to

Web 2.0 Internships spark Transatlantic Debate
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & CMI's @agathatheintern on Aug 19, 2009 | 6 Comments

Friday 14 August saw the debate about internships in a Web 2.0 age become a hot button topic across the online airwaves. Seth Godin kicked off the debate by posting his latest blog Free Work v Internships which argued for the value of a month of free hard work "to create a chunk of experience that's priceless" on a Gen Y resume.

Godin referenced 22 year-old

Short shrift for Women in Boardroom 2.0
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Aug 07, 2009 | 3 Comments

Depressing news this morning. Almost unbelievable in these progressive but turbulent times where some sense of gender equality prevails, at least until today! The latest hot news from the London School of Economics is the extraordinary revelation that wherever gender composition of today's Boards is biased in favour of women, findings of a freshly published Report show that "the average effect of gender diversity on firm performance is negative".

"It's a complicated picture", one of the Report's authors Dr Daniel Ferreira tells us with poignancy! Going on to say, possibly somewhat hurriedly,

Going Inside the Meltdown with "In Fed we Trust" - [See Cool Books for full review!]
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Aug 05, 2009 | 0 Comments

As leading New York Times literary critic Michiko Kakutani said, in her recent book review of David Wessel's ‘In Fed We Trust', "it would have been hard to imagine a book about the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department making it onto people's must-read

The credit crunch, an 'unofficial command' and The British Academy response
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Jul 27, 2009 | 0 Comments

Last November on Guy Fawkes Day, The Queen visited the LSE. While she was there, she posed the question - Why had no one noticed the arrival of the credit crunch?

In response to this question, June 2009 saw a roundtable discussion - ‘The Global Financial Crisis - Why Didn't Anybody Notice' - take place at the British Academy. The event, chaired by Professor Peter Hennessey FBA, and attended by a diverse group which included leading economists, academics, journalists and

Has Management 2.0 gone into a tailspin?
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Jul 16, 2009 | 3 Comments

The dawning of this post-crisis world sees Management at some kind of crunch point. The global economy is only just beginning to shake itself out from its worst crisis in living memory. The most fragile of recoveries is expected in the short term. Although this doesn't prevent Masters of the Universe of the Banking World being reborn at an unusually rapid rate.

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