Taking Experience SeriouslyThe politics of uncertainty.I have been working with a group of professionals, mostly in the health service, who shared some of their work dilemmas with me. In each of…5 min read·Apr 26, 2024----
Taking Experience SeriouslyDo no harmI have been in East Africa again continuing the programme on ethical leadership which began last July, a collaboration between an…5 min read·Mar 10, 2024--1--1
Taking Experience SeriouslyThe practice of leadership — ethics and hope in dark timesI have agreed to work in South Sudan developing an ethical leadership programme. I admit to a number of reservations to do with the fact…5 min read·Feb 12, 2024----
Taking Experience SeriouslyThinking about how we’re thinking may help us when the chips are downWe are not unique among mammals in our ability to take ourselves as objects to ourselves. Some primates have this capacity, as do elephants…5 min read·Nov 27, 2023----
Taking Experience SeriouslyTalking about what’s going on means making yourself vulnerable‘…the most admirable thinkers within the scholarly community you have chosen to join do not split their work from their lives.’6 min read·Oct 24, 2023--1--1
Taking Experience SeriouslyIt’s all very well being critical, but what should we do?After a series of workshops a colleague observed to me that taking a complexity perspective is very good at taking apart the dominant…5 min read·Oct 3, 2023----
Taking Experience SeriouslyBringing your authentic self to workWhat are we to make of the invitation to bring our authentic selves to work, or to lead authentically, an encouragement which often…5 min read·Sep 25, 2023--2--2
Taking Experience SeriouslyThe complex of past, present and futureGoing forwards, either used to mean ‘what we’ll do next’, ‘in the future’, or sometimes just as a hollow place holder meaning absolutely…4 min read·Sep 11, 2023----
Taking Experience SeriouslyHow our expectations of leaders may stop us thinkingLeadership emerged in all kinds of encouraging and unexpected ways during the crisis caused by the pandemic. It was a contemporary and…7 min read·Sep 4, 2023--2--2
Taking Experience SeriouslyDelivering changeDeliver, meaning to liberate (deliver us from evil), to give birth or to take something somewhere, has become ubiquitous in contemporary…4 min read·Aug 29, 2023--1--1
