We are incredibly lucky here at BLCC to have so many talented researchers within our group. With that in mind we have not one, nor two but three books recently published by members of our team.
Join us to celebrate their achievements and learn about their books at the BLCC Triple book launch this month. This launch will give you the opportunity to discuss the books with the authors and find out more on their wider work.
- Date: 20 March
- Time: 14:00-15:30
- Location: 5X106 Bristol Business School
Find out more about the authors and their books below.
Unleadership, The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts
Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu , Carol Jarvis and Hugo Gaggiotti
Volume 6 in the series De Gruyter Transformative Thinking and Practice of Leadership and Its Development
Leaderly acts and practices from unexpected places are often overlooked and yet have remarkable power. These spontaneous acts are in sharp contrast to those of formal leaders in governments and leading corporations. Global events like the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate crisis light up these differences. This book delves deeper, exploring these leaderly acts and practices more fully and beyond extraordinary events. The authors describe these as “unleadership”, a term defined in this book as a set of acts and practices that are undertaken in a spirit of spontaneity and generosity for social good.
Four dimensions of unleadership are identified in this book: paying it forward, living with the unknown, catching the wave, and confident connecting and collaborating. Unleadership exposes the potential that is unleashed when members of the community discover their own power to act and reclaim what they have delegated to their leaders.
Based on extensive research, the authors highlight the flourishing of alternative forms of leading that encourage rethinking ideas of leadership and followership. They provide practical guidance to organisations and practitioners for enriching their leaderly capacity and cultivating unleadership practices to co-exist with and complement leadership practices.
Unleadership is an invaluable resource for leaders and managers in public and private organisations as well as students of leadership and organisational development.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110767384/html?lang=en
Innovation Leadership in Practice: How Leaders Turn Ideas into Value in a Changing World
Karina R. Jensen, Africa Business School, Morocco; Stephanie Kaudela-Baum, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland; Rob Sheffield, Bluegreen Learning, UK
Innovation leadership is essential to survive in today’s turbulent landscape. For many organisations, their environment is characterized by internationalization, customer centricity, digitalization, sustainability, and a call for greater diversity. In these volatile, uncertain, ambiguous, and complex (VUCA) settings, there is also the need to create new and sustainable sources of value.
How are current-day leaders helping to turn ideas into value, whether that be through new products, services, markets, experiences, partnerships, processes, or business models? What are the new competencies and skills required in order to respond and effectively innovate in a changing environment?
Innovation Leadership in Practice provides a unique source of new insights on the role of innovation leadership and effective practices through conceptual models, empirical case studies, development interventions, and tools.
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/innovation-leadership-in-practice/?k=9781837533978
Pieces of us
A social history of Greenhill, Swansea which used to be a thriving urban place where Welsh and Irish people lived, worked and loved together. All of which was lost in one generation.
Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements… These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to people supporting each other.
With vivid descriptions and heartfelt anecdotes, Pieces of Us is a moving tribute to the people who made up this distinct part of Wales. The author, Rob Sheffield, shares first-person accounts of how the area formed then lost the strong bonds that held the neighbourhood together. And he describes growing up here, leaving for university, and the effect of this on identity and family.
From this story of Greenhill arise implications for community development everywhere, including the importance of collaboration between local residents and government.