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This free course was written by Laurence Knell. It was first published in November 2019.
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Course image: courtesy of Police Service Northern Ireland
Activity 5:
Bill Gates: Chesnot / Getty Images
Nelson Mandela: Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images
Taylor Swift: Steve Granitz/WireImage via Getty Images
Norman Foster: Samuel de Roman/WireImage via Getty Images
Michelle Obama: Monica Schipper; Getty Images
Angela Merkel: Omer Messinger / Stringer
Activity 6 Figure 5:
Darth Vader: Ann E. Parry/Alamy Stock Photo
Homer Simpson: Entertainment Pictures/ Alamy Stock Photo
Marge Simpson: Everett Collection/ Alamy Stock Photo
Princess Leia: AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo
Joey from Friends: ZUMA Press, Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 6: From: Introducing Organisation behaviour and management, Knights, D. and Willmott, H. © 2007, Thomson Learning.
Activity 8:
How Empowered Are You? poll – courtesy of Dr. Peter Bloom
Activity 10:
Figure 7: Adapted from Bennett and Lemoine, 2014: Bennet, N. and Lemoine, G. (2014) ‘What VUCA Really Means for You’, Harvard Business Review, January–February (Accessed 17 April 2019).
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