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Upcoming Events
May 15. Increasing Collective Impact and Serving Common Interests, Wealth and Well-being. Part of the Quilligan series of events, hosted by the Civil Society Forum in London. I am doing a short presentation, From Ant Hills to the Arab Spring: Where Now for Governance? You can read a short Insights piece I have written, or find out more about the event here.
June 28/29. Leadership for New Times: 4th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference, hosted by Exeter Centre for Leadership Studies. I am presenting a paper reflecting on the experience of facilitating a novel leadership development programme,Leadership Development as Community of Enquiry. Read the abstract or visit the conference website.
Just published
The Formless Void as Organizational Template. A new take on a traditional creation story, from the perspetive of complexity theory.What does it mean for the way we lead in our organizations? Published in the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion.
A symbol for governance in 2012? A goblet made at the Abbaye de Fleury, St Benoît sur Loire, France. | THE FUTURE OF GOVERNANCE At the beginning of 2012, De Baak in the Netherlands invited a small group of academics, poets and business leaders to discuss the future of governance. Find out more about this creative group of people on the In Claritas website. Group members were asked to bring an object reflecting our view of governance in 2012. I chose a wine goblet. It is the product of a community, not an individual. That community interweaves a focus on daily work with a spiritual tradition. It is not clear if it has a sacred or profane use (if we can make this distinction). And the Rule of St Benedict includes the wise advice that, when the leader has an important decision to make, they bring the whole community together, because it may be to the youngest that the best course is revealed. Lastly, the pottery goblet has a narrow base, suggesting a certain fragility. |
SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2011
International Leadership Association Conference, London, October 2011
L-R Julie Davies, Association of Business Schools, UK, Tim Harle, Heather Davis, RMIT, Australia, David Holzmer, Union Institute & University, USA, Professor Sandra Jones, RMIT, Australia (chair)
5 people from 3 continents. We had met by Skype and Twitter. We first met together in person the evening before our panel at the 13th annual ILA global conference. We explored the contribution that complexity theory offers to understandings of leadership. My contribution was Beyond Metaphor: Practical Leadership Implications of Complexity Theory. Delegates seemed to appreciate not only the content of our presentations, but the way our panel embodied a complexity worldview.
You can find out more on the ILA conference website.
I also contributed to a panel on Attachment: Implications of New Developments for Leadership, Followership and Organizational Change. Tracey Manning from the University of Maryland, Peter Robertson from Human Insight, Netherlands, and I covered a wide range of material with case studies from Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands and the UK. Delegates were especially interested in the range of attachment not only in the conventional sense to people, but also to 'matter' (eg computer systems, professional identity, concepts). Learn more here.
| Environmental Technologies - Route to Market or Road to Ruin? A symposium organised by Bristol Business School. Find out more here. October 2011. |
Publication of Embracing Chaos: Leadership Insights from Complexity Theory. July 2011.
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Whatever your interest, I hope you'll find something useful on this website.
If you're interested in finding out more about the ideas I work with, you can find a good summary in my article The Prairie and the Rainforest: Ecologies for Sustaining Organisational Change, published in Business Leadership Review in 2007. Read it here.
Tim Harle