All Outputs (3)

An ethic of care: Reconnecting the private and the public (2017)
Book Chapter
Tomkins, L., & Simpson, P. (2017). An ethic of care: Reconnecting the private and the public. In C. Mabey, & D. Knights (Eds.), Leadership Matters: Finding Voice, Connection And Meaning in the 21st Century. Routledge

This chapter draws on the authors’ own personal and professional experiences more than most conventional leadership text-books. We interweave ideas about familial care and organisational leadership based on our own first-hand experiences of both. W... Read More about An ethic of care: Reconnecting the private and the public.

Attention as a basis for thinking in groups (2017)
Book Chapter
French, R., & Simpson, P. (2017). Attention as a basis for thinking in groups. In M. Ringer (Ed.), Surfacing New Thoughts: Special Issue on Thinking in Groups and Teams. Rome, Italy: Gruppo: Omogeneita e differenze

In this contribution, which is taken from Chapter 1 of our book, 'Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An approach to working in groups using insights from Wilfred Bion' (Karnac, 2015), we outline the state of mind we talk of as attention. We make an imp... Read More about Attention as a basis for thinking in groups.

Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing (2017)
Book Chapter
Gaggiotti, H., Simpson, P., & Cicmil, S. (2017). Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing. In M. Izak, M. Kostera, & M. Zawadzki (Eds.), The future of university education. London: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46894-5

In this chapter, we argue that one of the reasons of resisting the temptation of teaching what ‘we could do and perhaps should not do’ (Eco, 2014 [1980], 107) in university Business Schools is the emphasis on the application of theories to the exclus... Read More about Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing.