Welcome to the sixth issue of Human Insight’s Feedforward.  In this issue we focus on leadership. Human Insight offer a different model of leadership, emphasising the importance of leaders’ day-to-day behaviour and how this shapes the values that develop within an organisation. At a time when organisational leadership is under the microscope as never before,  Human Insight offer new approaches underpinned  by theory and experience.

Values & How to Kill Them

In a recent major presentation, Peter Robertson gave a thought-provoking account of leadership’s relationship to values. Here we summarise Peter’s thoughts on the dangerous stage at the end of the growth curve when values are most under threat.

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The Leadership Dilemma

The CEO of a major company recently outlined the basic leadership dilemma to us in a uniquely graphic way. We discuss his ideas and show how the S-curve can illuminate them.

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What Leaders Do - And Other Family Matters

Drawing on our recent thinking about leadership, this article proposes  a different model of leadership, drawing on the successful business ecology approach.

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Diverse Diversification and other key ideas

An article in the FT published in November 2009 caught our attention. It quotes senior managers and academics on the global financial crisis and the banking regulatory system. The theme is that understanding the ecological diversity in savannahs and grasslands can explain what has happened in the financial world and that treating the global financial system as a living ecosystem could help shape the regulatory structure.

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Leadership Videos

The above articles draw in part on the ideas contained in our recently created suite of leadership videos. They offer a different approach to learning about and setting up discussions of the leadership role.

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Wider Issues in Leadership

Building Trust in Leadership

An Introdution to the S-curve

Annika Ratcliffe introduces basic concepts of the S-curve in a clear, eloquent and inspiring way on film.

An Introduction to the S-curve

Case Studies: how leaders & organisations are using our materials

The volume of case studies continues to grow where our materials are being used to help leaders, their teams and organisations to predict where they can be most productive in the growth cycle of a business and to uncover hidden areas or poor performance. Most recent examples include an investment appraisal and the matching of teams to strategic goals in an IT service organisation.

If you would like to receive a copy of these case studies please email us at info@human-insight.com

Connect with certified users of Human Insight materials

We are delighted to announce the launch of a Human Insight Certified Consultants group on LinkedIn. Set up by Hugh Blane of Claris Consulting, the aim of the group is to put users around the world in touch with each other and to discuss issues surrounding organisational performance, leadership and business ecology.

If you are interested in joining this group please email Hugh Blane at hugh@clarisconsulting.net or view the group details at: http://www.linkedin.com