Jon’s paper on charismatic versus inspiring leadership has just been published in this book on Leadership, Psychoanalysis & Society.

Stefan Stern writes in the FT about the ‘third age’ and how to prepare for life after an intense career, examining Changing Gear’s eight-step plan for successful career transition.

The adjustment process can be painful. A review of the book, Changing Gear, in The Economist.

An accessible and practical look at how to step away from a full-time career to create and transition to a new pattern of life and work.

Research suggests that a move is needed away from “heroic” individualistic leadership towards a leadership that recognises the organisation as a system.

New research carried out by Jon Stokes, Oxford Saïd Senior Fellow in Management Practice, and Sue Dopson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour.

To overcome the pandemic, leaders need to shift focus from a ‘heroic individual’ to collective intelligence. Download a copy of the research paper.

Jon has a chapter The New Landscape of Leadership: Living in Radical Uncertainty in the forthcoming book The Tavistock Century which traces the history of the Tavistock Clinic from its early post war years up to the present.

Britain’s destiny is uncertain. The country is in the middle of a political and, arguably, an identity crisis as well. At such a challenging moment it is understandable if people might long for a charismatic figure to lead them out of it.

The quickest and simplest solution to the chaos of Brexit, apparently, would be to install a new leader – someone with nerve, daring and, of course, charisma. But research into charismatic leadership reveals a number of reasons to be sceptical of these kinds of leaders.

Top-level executive burnout rates have never been higher, suggests Richard Jolly, Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. 

About that email you just fired off. Did you really need to send it? What else should you have been doing?

In an era of noisy busyness, the only way to live a purpose-driven life is to stop doing busy work. “But,” I hear you cry, “I’m extremely busy!” That is exactly the point.