Birkbeck Business Week, 24th-27th June 2013
Next week, the Business School at Birkbeck College are running a free series of lectures and events at the Bloomsbury campus, including academic and business speakers. The theme is sustainable working life and well-being and speakers including Willie Walsh, Chief…
Conference News: Speaker Programme Update
By Maria Gardner, Conference Dean This year’s Annual Conference is being held Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th October in the beautiful new venue of Wokefield Park, Reading. With a new date, a new venue, and a very strong business-focused theme,…
Your future as a Business Psychologist and how to prevent it happening
Event report, London Group On the 16th April the London Group heard from Mac (Alistair) MacPherson of Trinity Consulting Group, who assembled a startling set of facts which give business psychology practitioners a clear overview of what is truly happening…
Running for Robbie the Robot: Conference Team report from the Reading half Marathon
By Marius Marisca, Conference Team Member While organising this year’s Annual ABP Conference, the committee wanted to keep the tradition of giving something back. The charity Each year, the Conference Team nominates a local charity to support, and this year…
From not-working to networking. Part 2
...Building confidence for building connections Event report, North West Group On Monday 15th April the North West ABP group heard from two great speakers who had a very different approach to networking. Sean Heneghan and Angie Ingman, both Occupational…
From not-working to networking. Part 1
...Building confidence for building connections Event report, North West Group On Monday 15th April the North West ABP group heard from two great speakers who had a very different approach to networking. Sean Heneghan and Angie Ingman, both Occupational…
Book Review: Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz
"It is my job to make windows where there was once walls" (M Foucault) This book is brilliant! It is one of the best, if not the best, management/ leadership books I've read and should be required reading for every…
Book Review: Wilful Blindness Why We Ignore the Obvious At Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan
Heffernan uses models from psychology, history, business and the neurosciences to rigorously evaluate the phenomenon of wilful blindness. Far from being a ‘nice excuse’ to act in blissful ignorance, she shows that all of us are prone to frequent bouts…
Be a part of your business psychology community! Networking case studies from two local ABP groups
The ABP local networks are a great place to meet and interact with others in your profession who live locally. You can exchange ideas, offer or gain support, collaborate, develop new relationships, learn new skills, continue your professional development –…
Book Review: Good Strategy / Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt
Rumelt is not short of examples of ‘bad strategy’ in his book about what has gone wrong for most businesses. But he also offers extremely straightforward advice for getting strategy right, or ‘good’, such that one wonders how so…
Highlights from the 2012 Airport Leadership & Change Management Forum
Organisers Dr Richard Plenty and Terri Morrissey report on some of the highlights of October’s Airport Leadership & Change Management Forum in London. Where can you meet airport CEOs, HR directors and senior airport executives from around the world, along…
Change is Simple!
By Alison France, Evosis Okay, we all know it’s not always the case that 'change is simple' and I’m being deliberately provocative to catch your attention - so how about: Change can be simple…? Based on my knowledge and experience,…