Globalisation and the technological revolution have transformed our world. It is exciting and offers abundant possibilities. For leaders it is hugely challenging. It is characterised by constantly shifting global competition, faster and faster change, increasing complexity, unpredictability, instability, ambiguity, interdependence and growing global crisis. This means learning how to handle and thrive on chaos. In this situation, old didactic or management training approaches for developing leaders are not likely to be effective. Over the years one has been working with one’s clients, helping them learn and transform their companies in ways that reflect the different skills they need today. One has worked hard to create an approach that really works, making mistakes, learning and gradually getting it to work better and better. This is now shared with the readers.
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Bruce Nixon
Bruce Nixon
Independent Management Consultant, Bruce Nixon Associates, Independent Consultants in Organisation Transformation and Learning, Berkhamsted, UK. E‐mail: brucenixon@waitrose.com
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5767
Print ISSN: 0019-7858
© MCB UP Limited
2003
Industrial and Commercial Training (2003) 35 (4): 163–167.
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Nixon B (2003), "Leading business transformation – learning by doing ". Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 35 No. 4 pp. 163–167, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/00197850310479150
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