Bennis on Business Schools

In this month’s Harvard Business Review, Warren Bennis and James O’Toole examine How Business Schools lost their way (Subscription required). Business schools are on the wrong track. For many years, MBA programs enjoyed rising respectability in academia...

Is Corporate Social Responsibility optional?

Leon Gettler of The Age has just started his own blog. In this entry he discusses the efforts that several corporations are putting into Corporate Social Responsibility. He singles out the born again approach of GE: GE chief Jeffrey Immelt unveiled GE’s...

New Breast Blog

I’ve been slightlty uncomfortable for a while now about the amount of space that Breasts have been taking up at chriscurnow.com. My justification for this has been that it is part of the world of work. The way western society has sexualised and objectified...

Authentic Leadership

I’ve had a few occasions over the past week to think about authenticity. Being authentic is one of my most fundamental values. The other day I worked with a colleague who was struggling to find her own authentic response to a difficult situation as well as...

The function of Breasts

It apparently comes as a complete surprise to some people that the primary function of breasts is feeding: “In the fall of 1993, one of the undergraduate students in my ‘Women and Culture’ course was totally flabbergasted to discover that the biological...