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9/11: Reflections on political leadership
Society, Politics & Law

9/11: Reflections on political leadership

...leadership and its diplomatic and military strategy. For an undergraduate course looking at similar political themes, try The Open University's DU301 A world of whose making?... Reflecting on 9/11 Richard Heffernon looks back at the tragedy of 9/11. The United States as a Superpower Is the US the world's only 'Superpower'? Richard Heffernan and Simon Bromley discuss this...
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...leadership in schools, in particular: leading in an inclusive way (inclusive leadership) and playing a leading role in inclusive contexts (leadership for inclusion). The material will build upon the skills and experiences students already have, so that through their own expectations and understandings of practice they can reflect on personal and institutional responses to...
Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?

For some observers, Donald Trump's success in the Republican Primaries is a puzzle. Is it down to his charisma and the times?...Over at Politics Outdoors, sociologist and political scientist David Meyer has arguedthat Trump is a charismatic leader. The idea comes from Max Weber, widely seen as a founding father of sociology, who argued that there are three types of...
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...leadership at local and community level plays a key part in its achievement. While governments engage in the process of developing digital and online portals that host video and audio content for learners (for example, iCampusGH from the government of Ghana), at local and community level, particularly in low-income countries, educators have deployed a range of appropriate...
Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...leadership is more than strategy, it’s about connection. This article explores how emotional awareness and interpersonal skills can transform leadership in education and beyond...Are leaders expected to be all things to all people? You might think this isn’t possible, or that it seems impractical or unrealistic, and you may be correct in thinking this. On the other...
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...leadership). These approaches require you to think critically and challenge ideas and received wisdom. ...This free online course, Contemporary issues in managing, introduces three contemporary approaches (managing through organisational culture, managing through internal marketing, and managing through collective leadership). These approaches require you to think...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...leadership is at an all time low. Does science have any advice for those who would be out in front?...[All hail the duck leader] Leadership comes easy to some... Leadership has been in the spotlight as never before, as people around the world look to their leaders in all spheres of social, political and organisational life. Rather than help, though, leaders often seem to...
The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa
Society, Politics & Law

The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa

...leadership after the end of apartheid. This was boldly depicted in the “African Renaissance” – the cultural, scientific and economic renewal of the continent championed by former President Thabo Mbeki. For a short time, South Africa occupied the moral high ground and was able to influence the agenda of intergovernmental organisations like the United Nations, the...