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A symbol for governance in 2012? A goblet made at the Abbaye de Fleury, St Benoît sur Loire, France.

THE FUTURE OF GOVERNANCE

De Baak in the Netherlands invited a small group of academics, artists and business leaders to discuss the future of governance on 11-12 January 2012.

Find out more about this creative group of people on the In Claritas website.

Follow developments on Twitter @timharle #futgov2012

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.

A short (28 page) introduction aimed primarily at those involved in church leadership, but should be of interest more widely. Chapters include Emergence and Self-Organization, and The Importance of Small Things. Includes links to web resources. Read a review here.

Only £3.95! Click on this link to order your copy at the publisher's website (free p&p). E-version also available.

You can listen to a podcast where I'm interviewed about the booklet here. It's entitled Focus on Change and forms part of the CPAS Leadership Focus series.

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