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I've added my latest quarterly newsletter to this 'Document Exchange' area of The Hub, in the hope it is of use to you. Its theme is how to strengthen your leadership in a downturn. As a lot of leaders are facing this situation at the moment - leading through more difficult trading conditions - I hope it is of use. Joe. PS Click on the headline, below, to download it.

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This is useful and powerful, as it helps us identify what's missing in largescale complex change efforts, sometimes by working backwards from the outcome (eg if your current organisation's situation is 'confusion', looking back through the horizontal line from that outcome may help you identify the cause - lack of vision or a vision that is poorly communicated or not shared or bought into). There is a downloadable version, below (click on the 'attachment' title) if you need it.

In the attached paper, Professor Jonathan Gosling, who runs the Leadership Centre at University of Exeter in the UK, explains why Business School courses aren't enough to develop managers and leaders, and that we need a new model - 'wiki schools', in which we learn from each other - versus the ATM model of 'receiving' learning. Jonathan is a colleague of McGill (in Canada's) Henry Mintzberg, the strategy guru and pioneer of alternative approaches to leadership and management learning that move away from 'MBA as usual'.

The Internet has become an important business tool for frontline managers all the way to C-Level managers. However, using the Internet is becoming increasingly frustrating. There is too much Fluff, Spam and clutter in the results you get.

Just take a look at some studies

A slideshare summarising W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne's book Blue Ocean Strategy, including the strategy tools, assumptions and frameworks that it uses. This slideshare only references the authors right at the end and should really have done so right at the front as well. Also, attached (see below), is another slideshare from the same source that dives into (ahem, 'dives' - sorry; unintentional) more detail in showing the tools and templates you might want to use to put Blue Ocean Strategy into practice.