by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 11, 2010 | Business & Leadership
A version of this article first appeared in the June 2010 issue of Strategy magazine, with the title What lies beneath? Several leading modern business leaders seem, surprisingly, to downplay the importance of strategy. You can make too much fuss about strategy, they...
by Jonathan Gifford | Sep 30, 2010 | Leaders from History
The last cavalry charge At the end of the nineteenth century, a young twenty-three year-old British cavalry officer serving with the 21st Lancers under the command of General Herbert Kitchener, found himself taking part in what is generally acknowledged to be...
by Jonathan Gifford | Sep 16, 2010 | Business & Leadership
‘Command and Control’ is a phrase that we only use nowadays in connection with modern management in a tone of amused irony. We all know about command and control as the management system of choice from the earliest days of the major modern corporations—and we have...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jul 16, 2010 | Leaders from History
This article first appeared in Hourglass magazine, issue 18, published by Croner Publishing in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. You will need to register to be able to access the PDF version of Hourglass issue 18 No template for a great leader A study of...
by Jonathan Gifford | Apr 28, 2010 | Leadership issues
The UK’s 2010 election, like most (but not all) elections, is all about the desire for change and the fear of the unkown. In the light of the current appallingly dull yet strangely addictive television debates between our political leaders, what are we learning...
