In the latest article for Leadership, Professor Keith Grint examines the General Council meetings of 1647–49 as a masterclass in 'Whole System Change'.How did a 17th century revolutionary army pioneer modern concepts of systemic transformation?The contemporary world of management often treats "Whole System Change" as a modern invention, a product of 21st century complexity. However, as Professor Keith Grint … [Read more...] about What the New Model Army Teaches About Whole System Change
Followership
Leadership, Fatalism and Climate Change 2025
What follows is an AI generated video using my text about ‘Leadership, Fatalism and Climate Change’, lip-synched to a video of me talking in Belfast’s Titanic centre some years ago. My good friend and technical wizard, Tim Heath, sorted out the technology but the words are mine and it is based on my voice. Personally, I find it both intriguing and worrying – a bit like Climate Change – what do you think?Decades … [Read more...] about Leadership, Fatalism and Climate Change 2025
Mutiny and Leadership
I wrote my mutiny book in pursuit of a long term interest in both resistance and the military. I had written before on mutinies in the British Civil Wars and Roman history, but I wanted to spend more time on trying to understand why people mutiny, why they don’t, and equally important for me, why do individuals take on leadership roles in mutinies that are almost certain to end in significant punishment or … [Read more...] about Mutiny and Leadership
Situating and Progressing Resistance Leadership Research
Leadership is often framed as the ability to direct and influence others, however, resistance leadership reframes this narrative, highlighting the ways in which individuals and groups challenge dominant power structures to enact change. As Keith Grint and David Collinson articulate, resistance leadership operates in the tension between authority and dissent, encouraging critical engagement with the status … [Read more...] about Situating and Progressing Resistance Leadership Research
Tackling Wicked Problems with Clumsy Solutions
In a landscape inundated with change frameworks, Keith Grint’s (2008) seminal chapter Wicked Problems and Clumsy Solutions: the Role of Leadership provides a transformative lens for differentiating problem types and tailoring leadership approaches accordingly.AbstractWe know a lot about organisational change but despite - or perhaps because - the numbers of change models around most change initiatives fail. … [Read more...] about Tackling Wicked Problems with Clumsy Solutions