Chief Executive’s last 100 days – what does a good departure look like?
New research on how to leave well grouped around three key themes:
- The importance of planning and designing the transition and ending
- Ensuring honest and open relationships
- Intentionally shaping your legacy is critical to success
The list of things not to do rings chimes with my/our experience.
Practical tips for recruiting a more diverse group of trustees and inducting them well
The ICAEW is running a free webinar on 16 November looking at what has worked practically in both recruitment and induction – a much neglected area. A good use of an hour for trustees and executives tasked with board recruitment.
Management and Systems Thinking
Working systemically is central to organisational development as far as Dawn is concerned. This is an interesting perspective.
Until managers take into account the systemic nature of their organizations, most of their efforts to improve their performance are doomed to failure.
Dr. Russell Ackoff
Confronting xenophobia thought food – and comics
Susan loved this article by anthropologist and comic writer Ishann Patil about maintaining cultural heritage through finding and using difficult to source ingredients.
Contemporary Dutch ceramics on YouTube
A fabulous collection of well made videos with great artists.
Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere
Even if you can’t get to see the show this is a fascinating collection of artists and works to follow up.
…a major group exhibition bringing together fourteen international artists whose work prompts us to re-examine our human relationships to the planet and the microbial, fungal, plant, and animal agents within it.