by chriscurnow | Jun 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
I’ve just been going over some of Henry Mintzberg’s writing and came acros this article (payment required, sorry) by Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunai Basu. The authors argue that the notion of ‘shareholder value’ to the exclusion of all other...
by chriscurnow | Jun 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
This is a deeply moving, thought provoking, and challenging book which goes to the very heart of what it is to be a leader and even further intow what it means to be human. Peter Senge’s Introduction beautifully sets the stage for this book: For many years I...
by chriscurnow | Jun 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
You might think this piece belongs over in my politics&rants blog – however that’s more for venting spleen than reasoned thought. No, reflections on leaders (political or otherwise) is always good fodder for chriscurnow.com. This piece about Reagan is...
by chriscurnow | Jun 14, 2004 | Uncategorized
In these days of national standards (which in my mind relate to narrowness and mediocrity) it’s refreshing to see educators re-inforcing that schools are about producing “people who can think, create and innovate – and not just pass exams”....
by chriscurnow | Jun 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
Apparently there is some research running around in the blogoshpere suggesting that women are under-represented here. Charles Wright had a related piece on it in his blog Bleeding Edge (we must point out that Charles didn’t say that women don’t blog...
