ILA member Kathleen Allen explores the contributions of worker bees in Nature and in organizations. Contrary to popular opinion, “worker bees” significantly impact organizational systems. Like bees in Nature, they create the buzz!
ILA Fellow, Professor Dennis Tourish, shares his current thinking in this blog post updating and adapting a chapter from his 2019 book, Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research.
John, Lord Alderdice, who has been actively involved in peace-making processes for more than 50 years, sheds light on the current crisis in Israel and Gaza and the steps needed to work for a lasting peace.
Leaders who are catalysts inhabit the radical place between the present and the future as they apply activated hope to ignite powerful change in their organizations, communities, and themselves. ILA Fellow Professor Chellie Spiller shares 8 key insights leaders need to strike the match of potential.
ILA Fellow Keith Grint delves into the reciprocal processes of extraordinarization and mundanization whereby the actions of certain groups are deemed “heroic” while the actions of other, less privileged groups, are deemed “ordinary.” This process impedes the acquisition of equality and justice around particular tasks while insidiously masquerading as normality.
Ignite powerful change in your organizations, communities, and yourself. In this blog, ILA Fellow Chellie Spiller discusses her new book, The Catalyst’s Way – A Handbook for People Who Want to Change the World, based on her time as Leader in Residence at the Atlantic Institute and the extraordinary leadership exemplified by its fellows. Download the free eBook and its companion guide (links in blog).
ILA Fellow Suze Wilson argues the growing influence of mis- and dis-information creates an increasingly hostile context for leaders, warranting more attention from those engaged in leadership research, development, and practice for the greater good.
Barbara Kellerman shares her latest thinking on followership as she reflects on contemporary global issues. Read her most recent article from 3 July 2023 along with reprints of two additional articles from 2023.
Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase has often come under the pen of Barbara Kellerman. Read her most recent reflection on his leadership.
ILA Fellow Katherine Tyler Scott explores what is needed to equip leaders with the temperament and capacities necessary to lead whilst in the grip of shadow times.
What can former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s leadership of New Zealand reveal about the complex mix of authenticity, transparency, and masking that all leaders must grapple with? ILA Fellow Suze Wilson explores this question and more.
ILA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Dr. Barbara Kellerman, shares some of her latest thinking on women and leadership by reflecting on Ursula von der Leyen’s leadership of the European Commission and on the neuroscience of pregnancy.
