LeaderPod: Recent Episodes
Revd. Dr Will Foster
A leadership podcast covering history, philosophy, concepts and theory as well as practical ideas to help you grow as a leader
Continuing this mini series on leadership and wisdom, this episode looks at three benefits of slowing down in your leadership
We start a new series on leadership and wisdom, looking at the importance of integrity to the leader.
Continuing our look at contemporary leadership theory and doing a deeper dive into situational (contingency) leadership
In this episode, we pick up on the culture theme and think about images of organisations and then move onto purpose including vision / mission.
As part of the leading and complexity series, we now turn our attention to organisational culture (this episode) and purpose (next episode).
In this final spade of the min-series leadership today, we look at charismatic, transformational, servant and authentic leadership
In this episode we begin to set into theories that gained prominence in the last century as research and thinking around leadership gathered popularity.
In this episode, we take a diversion from our leadership history / theory to hear from Kevin Davis who came to speak to MBA students, Business Leaders and Academics at Keele University Business School in the inaugural session of the Leadership, Complexity, Inclusion public lecture series that I began in December 2019.
The video of that talk can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyy0jevYs5k
In this episode we look at the roots and beginnings of modern day leadership thinking in the early 1900s and the birth of the functionalist approach with Taylor and Fayol's scientific management, contrasted with the sociology of organisations with Max Weber's bureaucratic management and finally the behavioural approach sparked by the accidental discoveries of the Hawthorne effect.
In this episode, we kick things off by thinking about why leadership theory is important and why understanding the history of leadership thinking can be helpful