The pressures and changes in leadership today
by CambridgeJBS
In this six-part mini-series Dr Jonathan Trevor, Lecturer in Human Resources & Organisations at Cambridge Judge Business School and Kate Tojeiro, executive coach and Managing Director of X Fusion, discuss the pressures and changes facing leadership today. They will look at the impact of social media on organisations; how efficiency has been overtaken by the need to survive and encourage future growth and how information and communication require changed management and leadership styles.
Episodes
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The end of the middle manager?
Knowledge will dictate the future of organisational hierarchy as bureaucratic structures are replaced and where leaders will emerge rather than be elected, say Kate Tojeiro and Dr Jonathan Trevor. The power of middle managers will gradually disappear as organisations journey through a…
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Opportunity or threat?
Leaders of established and successful organisations must recognise and react positively to the deep-seated changes taking place in an operating environment where complexity is leading to uncertainty. The alternative - to exercise greater control and improve the existing model in order to survive…
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Leadership, vision, cynicism and social issues
Leadership plays a huge part in the transformation and visioning of the future organisation but cynicism is a major barrier in that process; and, as the operating environment becomes increasingly uncertain, vision is becoming more important than planning.
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Beyond efficiency
Dr Jonathan Trevor and Kate Tojeiro argue the traditional, bureaucratic organisation - based on execution and efficiency - is being replaced by network-based, informal structures as the industrial age disappears. Organisations need to cultivate a model of empowerment, development and liberation…
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For leadership read fellowship
Social media needs to be seen in the context of what we're seeing as the emergence of distributed leadership, where organisations are becoming flatter, leaner, more empowered, more democratic and more knowledge intensive. According to Kate Tojeiro and Dr Jonathan Trevor, people are no longer...
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Cutting the mustard
Dr Jonathan Trevor and Kate Tojeiro Levels of satisfaction, loyalty and engagement are at an all-time low but there other measures which indicate that, given the difficult environment, some leaders are managing people very well. So, which leaders are cutting the mustard and how are they doing it,...
About this show
In this six-part mini-series Dr Jonathan Trevor, Lecturer in Human Resources & Organisations at Cambridge Judge Business School and Kate Tojeiro, executive coach and Managing Director of X Fusion, discuss the pressures and changes facing leadership today. They will look at the impact of social media on organisations; how efficiency has been overtaken by the need to survive and encourage future growth and how information and communication require changed management and leadership styles.
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