Political Leadership, Bureaucracies and Business Schools: A Comfortable Union?

A Role for Business Schools in Leadership, Futures and Ethics

The essay first outlines the inclusion of futures in the programs at the author's business school, then sets out some of the arguments in favour of this practice, and what this might mean for the way business operates. Futures studies have become accepted and play a legitimate role in our programs. In these programs the foundation of futures thinking / futures studies is simple: What kind of wo...

Leadership and branding in business schools: a Bourdieusian analysis

Political leadership in democracies: some lessons for business?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that, with demands from a widening range of stakeholders for more democratic approaches to governance, there is an evident need to develop alternative models of organizing. In seeking to understand how to conceptualise this alternative, an analysis of the organizational and political institutional contexts for leadership is provided. Design/methodo...

National Special Schools Union

foresee a probable decrease in the number of mental defectives to be dealt with; but thought there were possibilities of a reduction in the number of physical defectives. There was an enormous and gratifying improvement in the conditions under which special education was carried on, and there could be none better than those enjoyed in some parts of Scotland. Mr. McKechnie begged all teachers to...

Leadership in improving schools: a qualitative perspective

This paper presents findings from the first year of school-based case studies investigating the ‘Impact of School Leadership on Pupil Outcomes’. The case study component of this study involved twenty schools (ten primary and ten secondary), all of which were selected on the basis of their sustained improvement (over at least three consecutive years) in terms of pupil outcomes. Interviews were c...