Web Links

Web links to related sites

Lancaster Leadership Collaboratory

http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/leadership/

The Lancaster Leadership Collaboratory connects academic staff from Lancaster and from a network of leadership centres from across the world together with companies, social innovators, topical experts, and stakeholders from the public and private sectors. The collaboration works over a period of time focusing on social innovation to develop and test solutions for addressing societal challenges. By leveraging energies and resources to address these issues from multiple perspectives, a collaboratory approach enables leadership to help address these challenges.

The Leadership Trust

http://www.leadership.org.uk/

The Leadership Trust delivers high impact, experiential leadership development, which changes behaviour and transforms individuals, teams, and organizations for clients across the globe. With foundations in the Special Forces, the Trust’s approach has been honed over four decades with expert input from behavioural psychologists and specialists in leadership development.

International Leadership Association

http://www.ila-net.org/

The world needs better leadership and ILA's mission of promoting a deeper understanding of leadership knowledge and practice for the greater good aims to make a difference. With members in over 70 countries, ILA is a global network that brings together leadership scholars and researchers, educators and students, coaches and consultants, public leaders and executives in order to share unique perspectives, experiences, and knowledge in order to generate more integrated leadership thinking, practices, and solutions that can positively impact the complex global environment.

Centre for Creative Leadership

http://www.ccl.org/Leadership/

CCL define leadership as a collective human process that can best be described as what is done to set direction, achieve alignment, and get commitment. They see this as a powerful framework for understanding and calibrating the effectiveness of leadership in your organization, and as an underpinning for leadership development interventions. Informed by decades of research and practical experience with tens of thousands of clients around the globe, they suggest that their interventions drive measurable and enduring results.

Institute for Sustainable Leadership

http://www.instituteforsustainableleadership.com/

The Institute for Sustainable Leadership promotes the science and practice of sustainable leadership through research and education. Sustainable leadership refers to those behaviours, practices, and systems that create enduring value for all stakeholders of organizations including investors, the environment, other species, future generations, and the community.

Centre for Leadership Studies

http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/research/areas/centres/cls/

Relevant, curious, creative, close, questioning, and influential are all words that capture the Centre for Leadership Studies' approach to leadership. We seek to challenge accepted truths about leadership practice, theory, and development to shed new light on what has become perhaps the most desired yet elusive phenomenon of our times.

Women’s Leadership Network

http://www.wlnfe.org.uk/

The WLN is a membership-based network that drives forward the gender equality agenda and supports all under-represented groups in leadership, management, and governance in the education and training sector and beyond.

European Network for Women in Leadership

https://www.wileurope.org/

The European Network for Women in Leadership (WIL) is a platform for professional and dynamic women working at the European level that provides the opportunity of exchanging ideas and best practices. WiL's first mandate is to offer to top level women a platform to network in order to open their horizons, to get support, and to identify opportunities and ideas that are not available in their social and professional environment.

Responsible Leadership Forum

https://www.linkedin.com/company/responsible-leadership-forum

The purpose of the Responsible Leadership Forum is to support the practice of responsible leadership across the major institutions of business, government, and civil society. They facilitate small group events where senior leaders can share their ideas and experience and discuss and explore their challenges in a confidential environment.

Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative

http://www.grli.org/

The GRLI’s mission is to catalyze the development of globally responsible leadership and practice in organizations and society worldwide. It aims to grow the GRLI community works through visible advocacy, thought-and-action leadership, and hands-on prototyping and experimentation, in order to promote awareness of global responsibility as the highest order of responsibility and contribute to the realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Web links to films, etc

Remember the Titans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3dqsZeGNk (trailer)

Based on real events, this remarkable story celebrates how a town torn apart by friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, beloved football coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton) is demoted and replaced by tough, opinionated Herman Boone (Denzil Washington). How these two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions is a remarkable portrait of courage and perseverance.

Dead Poets Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQwVQzs9pHk (trailer)

John Keating, a progressive English teacher, tries to encourage his students to break free from the norm, go against the status quo and live life unapologetically

Seckou Keita

The man and his music:

http://www.seckoukeita.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seckou_Keita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEs08zHLm9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVfx_m5--cQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnm8Aync5s

North Korean President Kim Jong-un

Contrasting views, all within the same newspaper:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-president-moon-jae-in-kim-jung-un-north-dogs-puppies-peace-gift-a8651041.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-kim-jong-un-oh-chong-song-defector-soldier-young-people-panmunjom-a8641541.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/north-korea-italy-ambassador-jo-song-gil-rome-defection-hiding-kim-jong-un-a8710756.html

The Magnificent Seven (or The Seven Samurai)

Two classics – the same, but different.