You can find my work in a variety of publications.  Here are some recent ones.  Click on the links for downloadable versions, where copyright restrictions allow.

Forthcoming [due September 2010]

Fractal Leadership: Emerging Patterns for Transformation in Leadership for Transformation, eds Gill Hickman & JoAnn Barbour, ILA/Jossey-Bass.

A volume in the International Leadership Association's Building Leadership Bridges Series.

2009

Book review. Followership, by Barbara Kellerman (Harvard, 2008). Leadership 5(2), pp285-288.

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2008

Making Companies Whole: Being Comfortably Out of Control. Faith in Business Quarterly 11(4), pp21-25.

A published version of my presentation at the Wholeness at Work conference in Cambridge in April 2008. "Tim's remedy was to look for organic solutions, to exert less control rather than more, to trust the wisdom of employees and to acknowledge the importance of the many small things that contribute to corporate culture." From the conference organiser's introductory article.

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Three chapters - Combining Relevance with a Timeless Perspective, Sustaining a Process of Change and Work as Worship  in How to Become a Creative Church Leader, ed. John Nelson, Canterbury Press.

"You don’t find many Christian books quoting Nietzsche approvingly, but these words...  seem to sum up what I found to be best in this book: 'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.' This comes in a chapter by Tim Harle on 'Sustaining a Process of Change' and is about that vision thing. If the job of a leader is to lead, and, in order to lead, decide what direction to take, then, unless he or she plans to walk alone, there must be real ownership about where the community wants to get to, and why this route is being taken. This is where vision and values align. The leader is the herald of the vision and the guardian of the values; or, as Tim Harle puts it, unless you can answer the question 'Why are you doing this?', no amount of knowledge about 'How?' will ever help." From the 'Church Times' review by Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Reading.

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Articles Religious Meaning and Wisdom in Leadership: The Key Concepts, eds Antonio Marturano & Jonathan Gosling, Routledge.

"An indispensable and authoritative guide to the most crucial ideas, concepts and debates surrounding the study and exercise of leadership. Bringing together entries written by a wide range of international experts, this is an essential desktop resource for managers and leaders in all kinds of institutions and organizations, as well as students of business, sociology and politics." From the publisher's blurb.

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2007

The Prairie and the Rainforest: Ecologies for Sustaining Organisational Change.  Business Leadership Review 4(3). 

"Another powerful analogy is given in the article by Tim Harle on ecologies for sustaining organisational change. Drawing on ideas first popularised by Ralph Stacey, Peter Senge and Meg Wheatley, Tim extends insights from the natural sciences – particularly those relating to systems and complexity – to explore the issue of organisational change and renewal. Such an interdisciplinary approach remains relatively unusual within the field of leadership and management studies yet is essential if we endeavour to capture the subtleties and nuances of organisational life. From this perspective, leadership is as much about maintaining a sense of continuity as driving forward change. "  From the Business Leadership Review Editorial.

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Gimme Five! Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Leadership in John Adair: Fundamentals of Leadership, eds Jonathan Gosling, Peter Case & Morgen Witzel, Palgrave Macmillan, pp73-92.

"Tim Harle presents a thought provoking set of comparisons between two unlikely bedfellows. He contrasts two lists, each comprising five elements: the ‘Five Minds of the Manager’ proposed by Gosling and Mintzberg (2003) in their Harvard Business Review article, and the five models that describe the Anglican priest’s vocational calling as represented in The Declaration read out during ordination services… Harle sets out to reflect critically on three key questions. Firstly, despite Adair’s espoused emphasis on ‘serving to lead’, can the [Action Centred Leadership] model be accused of promoting the notion of the ‘heroic individual’ which has come under such criticism in recent leadership literature? Second, is ACL premised on an unhelpful Cartesian worldview? Third, has Adair’s hierarchical modelling of team, operational and strategic leadership stood the test of time, particularly in the light of recent research developments in the areas of chaos and complexity modelling? Ever sensitive to the etymological roots of the terms he employs and careful to capture nuance, Harle treats the reader to a rich exploration of these questions – juxtaposing sources from academic organisation and leadership sources, popular management literature, biblical references and concepts drawn from comparative religion. While the argument is subtle, Harle concludes that readers of The Ordinal and the Harvard Business Review have much to learn from one another concerning the meaning and practice of leadership." From the editors' introduction, p12.

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2006

Peter Drucker: A Tribute. Faith in Business Quarterly 9(4), pp29-30.

"a perceptive tribute to Peter Drucker"  From the editors.

2005

Serenity, Courage and Wisdom: Changing Competencies for Leadership. Business Ethics: European Review 14(4), pp348-358.

2004

Lessons from the Margins. The Reader 101(1), pp14-15.