Tag Archives: politics

Leaders determine culture: The troubling case of UK policing.

Posted on June 22, 2015 by lawrence serewicz

UK College of Policing published a report on police leadership culture.[1] The report found that the top officer culture is problematic as it encourages bullying, sexual harassment, and a sense of entitlement to legal and illegal perks. The report describes … Continue reading →

Posted in bureaucracy, coruption, culture, leadership, learning organisation | Tagged Ethics, leadership, Middle management, Organizational culture, politics, Senior management | 1 Comment

Four questions for George Entwistle at parliament on 23 October 2012

Posted on October 22, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

When George Entwistle answers questions before the Culture, Media, and Sport Committee on Tuesday 23 October 2012, the committee will face several challenges. First, the committee will show the public’s interest about the withdrawal of the Newsnight programme. On the … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, leadership, learning organisation, path dependency, renewal | Tagged Allegation, BBC, Entwistle, George Entwistle, Harassment, harassment issues, Jimmy Savile, Newsnight, politics, Savile, sexual harassment policy | Comments Off

Why do regulators fail to regulate?

Posted on July 21, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

When people hear about regulators failing to spot problems, they often think the regulators are incompetent. The headlines around these cases present a picture of regulators unwilling, unable, or unprepared to do their jobs. Even though regulators may have flaws, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Audit Commission, Care Quality Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CQC, Financial regulation, Financial Services Authority, FSA, Government, politics, United States | Comments Off

Do corporate integrity programmes work or does culture eat them too?

Posted on July 10, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

The Barclays fine for the LIBOR scandal and Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK)’s massive fine by regulators raises the question whether corporate integrity programmes work. All major firms have the programmes in some form either as a corporate social responsibility programme or as an … Continue reading →

Posted in change managment, culture, leadership, management | Tagged Barclays, Business ethics, Chief Financial Officer, Ethical code, Ethics, GlaxoSmithKline, leadership, Master of Business Administration, politics, Thomas Hobbes | 3 Comments

The Bureaucrat and the Banker: Bob Diamond’s downfall

Posted on July 4, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

Bob Diamond is a shrewd, powerful, deal maker who does not understand bureaucratic politics. On Wall Street, or in the City, your word is your bond. If you cannot keep your word, you cannot do business. Lehman Brothers collapsed in … Continue reading →

Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management | Tagged Bank, Barclays, Bob Diamond, Business, current-events, economy, Lehman Brothers, London Interbank Offered Rate, politics, Treasury, Washington DC, White House | Comments Off

Three reasons why Bob Diamond will stay and lessons in crisis management

Posted on June 30, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

This blog post has been overtaken by events. Bob Diamond resigned on 3 July 2012. It is unlikely that the LIBOR scandal as described in the FSA report is going to be enough to remove Bob Diamond from Barclays. There … Continue reading →

Posted in leadership, management | Tagged Andrew Tyrie, Barclay, Bob Diamond, Business, current-events, Diamond, economy, Financial Services Authority, Lehman Brothers, London Interbank Offered Rate, politics, Royal Bank of Scotland | 1 Comment

Leadership is not a conversation

Posted on June 23, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

Despite the claims of Groysberg and Slind at Harvard Business Review, leadership is not a conversation because staff do not listen. The staff do not listen because what is being presented as a “conversation” or a “dialogue” is instead a … Continue reading →

Posted in leadership, learning organisation, management, path dependency | Tagged Business, Communication, Conversation, Decision making, Harvard Business Review, leadership, management, Observer Effect, politics | 12 Comments

Thoughts on Managing America’s renewal: educating ourselves to live within our means.

Posted on June 20, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

The financial crisis has shown that the economic growth over the past 20 years in the United States has been based largely, but not exclusively, on personal and corporate debt. The debt dependency has weakened the fundamental financial systems within the … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, innovation, leadership, management, path dependency, renewal | Tagged Americans, Average Joe, Business, Credit, Federal Reserve System, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs, occupy-wall-street, politics, UBS, United States, Wall Street | Comments Off

Good Corporate Citizen or Good Person: check your ethics at the door?

Posted on May 19, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

With the recent financial crisis hitting the world, there have been a several attempts to understand what went wrong with the system. A financial and economic system that delivered staggeringly good results and provided economic benefits to billions of people … Continue reading →

Posted in coruption, culture, management | Tagged Business, Consulting, corporate citizens, Corporate citizenship, Ethics, leadership, Lehman Brothers, management, Philosophy, politics, Research, unethical behaviour | 1 Comment

Monologue vs. dialogue: The myth that governments need more or better communication.

Posted on April 29, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

There is an on-going myth within social media circles that governments need more and better communication. The problem is that this is not true. Governments spend a large amount of time and money communicating with the public. They have annual … Continue reading →

Posted in information management, innovation, knowledge worker, leadership, local government | Tagged Communication, Facebook, leadership, Organization, politics, social media, technology, Twitter, YouTube | 6 Comments