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Brief is Stonecourt’s range of pre-digested summaries of recent research, best practice, books and articles about leadership, organisation, change and growth.
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Each Brief is a very short distillation of the best published research and thinking from dozens of sources from around the world.
Our latest Brief summarises some of the most interesting and useful research into leadership, organisation, and change during the pandemic.
Improving growth & speed
Includes:
>Uncertainty is also an opportunity
>Redraw your mental map, or fail
>A sense of urgency
>Strategic speed: mobilise people, accelerate execution
>The end of competitive advantage
>Is your executive team like an Italian family dinner?
Accelerating executive team performance
Includes:
>We must stop meeting like this
>Why top teams are so tough to tame – and what to do about it
>Teams aren’t what they used to be
>Leading in turbulent times
>Leadership in the era of economic uncertainty
>Leading for speed
>Leadership and emotion
>Who is on your side? Is managing stakeholders the most valuable thing a leadership team can do?
>Managing your time in turbulent times: mission impossible?
>Learn to be more of a monk?
>Mind games: learning from Jose Mourinho about improving team performance
>Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes
>Mindfulness – Why is it on the agenda for leaders at Unilever, Google, and the House of Commons?
Metrics, feedback and better business decisions
Includes:
>Decision-making: how to avoid your leadership team acting like teenagers
>Time alone and time together
>Harnessing uncertainty to make faster, better decisions
>Decide and deliver
>The truth is not out there: Big Data, leadership & organisation
>Smart metrics mean smart decisions
Streamlining organisational design
Includes:
>Decision-making: how to avoid your leadership team acting like teenagers
>Time alone and time together
>Harnessing uncertainty to make faster, better decisions
>Decide and deliver
>The truth is not out there: Big Data, leadership & organisation
>Smart metrics mean smart decisions
Improving delivery through culture, mobilisation, and engagement
Includes:
>Decision-making: how to avoid your leadership team acting like teenagers
>Time alone and time together
>Harnessing uncertainty to make faster, better decisions
>Decide and deliver
>The truth is not out there: Big Data, leadership & organisation
>Smart metrics mean smart decisions
Managing risk and resilience
Includes:
>Decision-making: how to avoid your leadership team acting like teenagers
>Time alone and time together
>Harnessing uncertainty to make faster, better decisions
>Decide and deliver
>The truth is not out there: Big Data, leadership & organisation
>Smart metrics mean smart decisions