It's Your Ship: Lessons in Leadership - William Perry (Former Sec. of Defense)
Dr. William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense discusses lessons in leadership reminding us that a pivotal point in management is realizing that "It's your ship" and your own "crew". Perry draws parallels from his experience in business as an entrepreneur and in the government in various critical technology development roles and most recently as the Secretary of Defense (1994-1997). Perry ends with an incisive management principle applicable both in the corporate world and the government - "T
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 - Tina Seelig (STVP)
Tina Seelig, Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, provides insights on life, leadership, and the little things that make a big difference in an entrepreneurial setting.
Giving in the Digital World
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? Following on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, generous individuals around the world used their mobile phones to make more than $40 million in gifts to aid organisations. More than $1 billion in gifts came in the next four weeks, a large percentage of which was donated online. But the real stories of how digital tec
Entrepreneurial Leadership Qualities - Janice Fraser (Adaptive Path)
Janice Fraser, CEO and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, discusses the entrepreneurial leadership qualities that have contributed to the success of her user experience consulting company.
Leaders can increase the gap LSE Director's Dialogue with Paul Volcker Giving in the Digital World Acknowledgements This unit was written by Professor Grahame F. Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at The Open University. Researching the political economy of the international system and the process of ‘globalization’. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in t 3. ‘Acts’ and ‘status’ citizenship 5 New Labour Hudson Lake Grocery A Conversation with Meg Munn Doing the Dirty Work of Higher Education HRM 301: Organizational Behavior Chicken Puppet Counts to Five Gen. Peter Chiarelli addresses Army War College Class of 2011 Leading in change Kathleen Kurre, CEO, TechBridge - IMPACT Musharraf on leadership challenges in solving Middle Eastern disputes The politics of Aids
Randall Peterson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour discusses the importance of leadership during a downturn. If employees believe and trust in the organisation and its leadership, they are more likely to stay focussed, engaged and work hard
Howard Davies is director of LSE. Prior to this, from 1997-2003 he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the single regulator for the UK financial sector, which was created under his leadership from nine separate regulatory agencies. From 1995-1997 he was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. His latest book is Banking on the Future: the fall and rise of central banking, written with David Green, which will be launched at LSE at a public debate on 12 May.
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? Following on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, generous individuals around the world used their mobile phones to make more than $40 million in gifts to aid organisations. More than $1 billion in gifts came in the next four weeks, a large percentage of which was donated online. But the real stories of how digital tec
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The issue of ‘citizenship, work and the economy’ is often neglected in everyday discussions of citizenship. But a moment's reflection should demonstrate how important it is. The vast majority of us will spend the bulk of our adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just as consumers). Many young people are also intimately tied up with work. School children often have part-time evening, weekend or holiday jobs
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A conversation with Meg Munn MP, former Minister in the Blair and Brown governments. Hear an 'insider's' take on the UK political scene - a crucial general election due within six months, the 'expenses scandal' entangling Westminster MPs, an unpopular Labour leader, and the UK’s relationship with Europe being questioned again. Held 7 December, 2009.
In the age of near-universal access, what should be the division of labour between colleges and universities? As open-door institutions, colleges transferred some students to selective universities and persuaded the rest in strongly vocational directions. (Running Time 63:13)
A foundation course in individual and group behavior in organizations. Processes such as perception, motivation and leadership are examined with a focus on issues central to technology-based organizations (innovation, creativity, managing technical professionals).
This brief but entertaining video for younger children includes a fun, chicken puppet and a farm scene to help students count. Run time 0:57.
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, spoke about the effects of war -- what we are finding out about them, what we are doing in response to them and the role that senior leaders like the student will play in mitigating or helping their Soldiers deal with them, as part of the Anton Myrer Army Leader Day, the capstone event for the college's Strategic Leadership course Oct. 14.
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson led a team of consultants who advised the Department of Health on the establishment of their recently announced National Leadership Council, which has been designed to champion leadership in the NHS as it enters a new stage of reform. She explains that in order to achieve true transformational change, leadership for large and diverse organisations needs to encourage, guide and support development from the grassroots up through the use of leadership pipelines and ment
September 29 - IMPACT presents Kathleen Kurre, CEO, TechBridge.
Kathleen has over thirty years experience in bringing technology to business in the corporate sector and as an entrepreneur executive. Having worked in the financial services industry (PNC Bank, KPMG consulting and Aegon) and in the healthcare industry (Humana, Inc., Healthcare Recoveries, and Intellego Corporation), she has a broad range of experience in developing and implementing new technologies and leading interdisciplinary te
Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf talked about the qualities of leadership, the conflict in the Middle East and many other topics during an intense one-hour class session with International Relations students on Oct. 13. 2010
Dr Peter Piot, Director of the Institute for Global Health, Imperial College, draws on his experience at the United Nations to explain why Aids needs business to provide the leadership of the future. Good leadership, he says, is about running programmes not based on opinion polls but on what is good for society.
