Andy's Blog

I’ve just read a professional journal aimed at personnel managers. And my attention was drawn to an article where they were asking eminent thinkers what they thought the future of leadership would be. Cool. That’s right up my street, so I read with interest what the top people in the field of leadership had to say.

And, oh deary me...

I was working in one of the local authorities. It is a vast place of green corridors, security doors and secret passages before you eventually end up in the council chamber. This is a sombre-looking place where lots of sombre-looking people get together to make sombre decisions. A portrait of her Majesty bears down on proceedings. For some reason she has a Mona Lisa non-smile and I always think, come on Liz, cheer up, we need our head of state to be a 2%er!

I used to have a proper job. In fact, I’ve had several proper jobs including teaching modules on an MBA programme. For a few years I taught a module called ‘decision theory’ which explained various mathematical and logical techniques for weighing the effects of a complex set of factors on an outcome. Stop yawning. This blog is worth staying with, I promise!  And I honed it to the point that it was actually quite interesting. Decision theory, decision trees, critical path analysis. That kind of stuff.