1 May 2012
Learning Leadership from the Not-for-Profit Sector - When PricewaterhouseCoopers met Barnardo’s
Christine Adshead leads the team whose job is to support the buying and selling of businesses throughout the North West. It’s a male-dominated w...
18 Jul 2011
Media reports in June 2011 predicted the end is nigh for Facebook as the number of people using the world’s most popular social networking site dropped for the second month in a row; indicating Facebook’s popularity may be waning and its CEO Mark ...
28 Jun 2011
I have been attending a course on nonviolent communication for the past two days. I know it sounds weird but it was fascinating. Here’s an example for you to play with. Take a recent conversation that did not go well and play it back through yo...
21 Jun 2011
A news item today referred to the Greek Prime Minister and some of his Cabinet members as ‘cosmopolitans’. The clear implication was that these people, all educated outside of Greece, had more in common with the international elite than they did ...
7 Jun 2011
Leadership is a fascinating relationship between people who pursue a common goal and, in doing so, take on the ‘roles’ of ‘leader’ or ‘follower’. The leader’s role is to influence people in pursuit of the goal; the followers’ role is to support t...
23 May 2011
According to Vince Cable this country is going through a profound structural shift that will have repercussions for many years to come. In an interview with the Guardian he claimed that the current deficit was only one symptom of a much broader c...
12 May 2011
I suppose I have a particular ‘take’ on the whole ‘responsible management’ debate and it is one that I don’t see as widely represented as I would like. The popular notion of ‘responsible management’ can be summed up as seeking to ba...
9 May 2011
When running an undergraduate seminar recently, we had an interesting chat about an upmarket, American apparel store associated with a cool, preppy image (beginning with ‘H’!). Apparently, to work for this organisation, females have to be very sl...
28 Apr 2011
The focus of my blog will be to support people at work who want to contribute to a fairer, more sustainable and happier society. I say ‘at work’, not because I think we should split our identities into ‘me-at-work’ vs. ‘me-at-home’. But in my ex...
7 Apr 2011
Welcome to the Hoare Centre for Responsible Management blogspot. We want this to be a place where everyone can contribute their views, ideas, stories and suggestions regarding responsible management at a local, national and global level.
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