Editor’s Note – February 2016
Welcome to this issue of People & Purpose – the Positive Leadership Journal, where Henry Stewart shares with us his insights on happy and productive workplaces.
Encouraging leaders to make their people feel good about themselves, create autonomy, allow mistakes and coach staff may sound attractive, but how about pre-approvals and allowing people to choose their own manager? The research backs his radical ideas – are you ready to put them into practice?
As a reviewer for the Management Book of the Year competition, I am a regular guest of the annual award ceremony organised by the Chartered Management Institute and the British Library. This year’s event, which took place in February 2016, continued the proud tradition of showcasing some of the most innovative, thought provoking, well researched and actionable management and leadership writing. In forthcoming issues we will bring you a number of book summaries on the winning titles. We are especially looking forward to a feature interview with Lady Kitty Chisholm, co-author of Neuroscience for Leadership, which won in the Practical Management category.
In this issue Reetu Kansal shows the continued relevance of Aristoteles when it comes to engendering excellence, and I share the important leadership actions for creating a high performance culture.
Read the ‘five of the best’ feature for ideas and tools for developing your team, our book summary on starting a business and view Philip Evans’ TED talk on How data will transform business. On a more personal level, explore with us the way your appearance can have an impact on your leadership and business success.
We have an exciting line-up of interviews planned for the coming issues. I am very much looking forward to hearing from these influential leaders and sharing their insights with you through the People & Purpose videos.
Are there areas of leadership that you would like to know more about? Should we interview your manager or your CEO or is there a leader or expert you would like to hear more from? We would very much welcome suggestions for future topics and contributors, please e-mail us at support@peopleandpurposejournal.com.
Eszter Molnar Mills, Editor-in-Chief
