Tom S. Cockburn- BA(hons),PGCE,MBA,Ed.D.,AFNZIM
- Independent at TLAINC & AR Consulting
Tom S. Cockburn
- BA(hons),PGCE,MBA,Ed.D.,AFNZIM
- Independent at TLAINC & AR Consulting
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Introduction
(2020) Book, ¨Global Business Leadership Development for the 4th Industrial Revolution¨ , Co Ed. Special issue The Learning Organization(ended 10/5/2020) Reviewer: Hospitality & Society, Euroscience Associate, E.R.Board, Int. Journal of Technology & Human Interaction, Reviewer, Int. Journal of Sociotech & Knowledge Development, Management Teaching Review, ex-E. A. B. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies. Associate, Leadership & O.B., Henley Business School, UK. Member, New HoRRizon Virtual lab.
Current institution
TLAINC & AR Consulting
Current position
- Independent
Additional affiliations
December 2009 - December 2013
Private consulting services
Position
- Partner/senior associate
Description
- Business management and leadership consultant to private sector, NGOs and public sector including organizations, author and researcher
November 1983 - November 1993
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- Promoted through lecturer to senior lecturer,teaching,research and consulting role
June 2005 - July 2007
Position
- Head of Department
Description
- Head of School role includes research, teaching and administration
Publications
Publications (466)
During their academic career many students are encouraged to work in groups on their assignments. Similarly, in the workplace there has been a rise in the use of teamwork (Haskins, 1998:74, Senge, 1990, p. 236). Peer learning and the collectivising of tacit knowledge have encouraged organisations to try to stimulate organisationally committed, comm...
This book’s author, Siu Loon Hoe, Associate Professor of Information Systems, outlines a number of the key change management leadership ingredients such as organisational focus, capability and will (to make all necessary changes) in successful digital transformation of an organisation. The book is structured around three broad areas, namely, strate...
Enacting future global visions such as the Belt and Road Initiative, while emerging from a pandemic and in the midst of climate emergency negotiations at COP-26, suggests a contest in the public relations domain as much as the domain of political leadership. The spread of malicious, ill-informed rumour-mongering, and disinformation on social media...
This chapter presents a brief reflection on emergent themes, issues, and problematic areas chapter authors have drawn to readers' attention to and tentatively indicates some potential future directions for research and development whilst recognizing rapidly changing social mores and culture is a deep river running through diverse channels in the Li...
In this chapter, Smith and Cockburn reaffirm their claim in a previous book that today's global business contexts are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), and leaders must focus more on complex thinking skills and mindsets than developing behavioral competencies. In so doing, leaders must be familiar with the benefits and drawbacks o...
This chapter introduces the scope and focus of the new book. The reader is briefly introduced to the definitions and debates about leadership and management boundaries, differences, and overlapping responsibilities in the digital age. Drawing on both theory and practice, current issues and topics are covered in depth, providing an introduction and...
Topics covered in the book include:
• Big Data Analytics
• Corporate Governance
• Cyber Security
• Data Privacy
• E-Learning
• Leadership Models
• Managerial Leadership
• Organizational Change
• Risk Management
• Socio-Cultural Leadership
Covid19 has given new and urgent impetus to the reorganisation of the economy and community including social distancing, virtual teaming and application of socio-digital technologies to the global economy as part of a health and wellbeing strategy to combat the pandemic. However, there are emerging trends for wider global changes in the next few ye...
Presentation to graduate student class on developing a literature review
Poster used to present research on three dynamic fields of leadership and complexity in executive education programmes and consulting 2009-2013
This chapter extends the previous research published in 2016 which looked into the embedding contexts of networks of small firms, in the EU principally, and how collaboration between small to medium enterprises (SMEs) was supported inside national and regional clustering structures and incubators initiated in collaboration with university researche...
This is a pre-workshop presentation on coaching patients rather than a paper focused on renal care.
This is an EXEC ED program recruitment and selection activity devised for staff development of the hospitality sector execs and the HSI in New Zealand originally, but now updated.
Draft Corporate Development Programme: The programme builds on research carried out over a number of years by the facilitators. Proposed start date is March 2019.The focus in the programme is on building a 3D strategic development with sharper focus, enhanced capability, greater staff buy-in and strengthened corporate will to follow-through with re...
Initial draft discussion document for staff to garner views,suggestions and further aspects to consider on the effective design of documentation for candidates claiming APL/APEL
This is a case-based Exec Ed teaching activity .The organization, an SME based in New Zealand, has been disguised for commercial confidentiality reasons. The exercise is used in the exec ed programs to stimulate discussion on recruitment and selection but also migration issues and technology innovation constraints in New Zealand. This has also been...
Over the last few decades, there has been growing worldwide legal recognition of human rights for people with disabilities. The global economy, the rise of social media and globalizing digital technology have created and reinforced new expectations for access to economic opportunities as well as new forms of social citizenship (Cockburn et al., The...
In this chapter we present a brief summary commentary and reflective overview of the emergent themes, issues and problematic areas the chapter authors have drawn to readers’ attention in this book and we tentatively indicate some potential or possible future directions for research and development of global business. We recognize that there are rap...
This is a draft for a chapter in a forthcoming edited book
This set of presentation slides is for an Exec Ed workshop on negotiation. They describe 4 views of how culture influences negotiations and discuss the Negotiating styles, approaches or tendencies of at least three cultures and the impact of some cultural stereotypes on negotiations.
The Music of Love—in Distributive and Integrative Approaches to Negotiation Collaborate or Compete: conflict of interest or community of enterprise? This set of slides is from an Exec Ed series of seminars and aims to explain Negotiation dialectics and dialogue in relationships. In addition a discussion comparing and contrasting Competitive and dis...
This is a draft of a case study describing and discussing an interaction of a manager and academic staff members in a university business school some years ago. Using the Argyris ‘ladder of inference’ tool, the HOS records his reactions and thoughts during the interchange. The interchange between the staff illustrates some key tacit and explicit di...
Teams - 2016 update for exec Ed MBA program on teams (presentation slides).These slides differentiate teams from groups, evaluate definitions of teams and evaluate the importance of teams and communication. I identify various team behaviours,tacit learning and knowledge in teams and analyse leadership in teams before reviewing some leadership scena...
We have updated this set of Exec Ed presentation slides,originally presented in 2004 in New Zealand. Some revisions have been made to slides based upon follow on research we have done separately and together since 2004 in complexity and global business in readiness for presentation in workshops in 2018 onwards.
This is a draft slides for use with Exec Ed programs addressing an introduction to some key concepts about complexity and transformations within the global supply chain sector. For instance the growing number of global and local supply chains now based
upon ICT. The complexity of global business and supply chain management means that radical discon...
In this chapter, Smith and Cockburn reaffirm the claim that they made in a previous book (Smith & Cockburn, 2013), namely that today's global business environments are characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, and that leaders must focus less on developing behavioral competencies and more on complex thinking abilities and...
Abstract
Teamwork in developed and in many emerging societies today is marked by increased fluidity of interactions with others facilitated globally by the web and mobile technology. Even small startup businesses may operate very successfully on a global as well as a local level by means of online trading or ‘crowdsourcing’ for instance. Amy Edmond...
Book Review(Editorial)
Interview about our new book
The research cover letter was attached to the first draft sent to the reference group at the Ministry of Education for their review and feedback comments. We aimed to investigate and analyse cases of innovative forms of assessment in the New Zealand tertiary education sector. The cover letter to the Ministry of Education discusses some changes in t...
We believe that there are many good practices in credit unions in particular that go unrecorded and unrecognized. The staff at the ‘front of house’ and the ‘back office’ all contribute to the development of the customer relationship. Often the best practices are embodied in how business is conducted with customers and accounts small and large. It m...
Today competition is global and “world class” technology increasingly the normal expectation of customers. The strategic management of corporate positioning, market share enhancement and new product development are critical objectives for businesses of all kinds. The key role of identity and brand management in the turbulent business world environm...
outline scenarios for decision by the K'aute pacifica Trustees in 2013
prep for discussion on pilot on Graduate attributes in ASB 2008
Unpublished Draft of Bachelor degree dissertation
First draft of a position paper for developing a collaborative project with the journalism department and marketing
Draft discussion document about a BTignite-UWIC Commercial collaborative project proposal to build an EU languages helpdesk
Initial Discussion Document:
Application for changes to "Introduction to e-Learning (ESAT1EL)" program at Waikato Institute of Technology,Hamilton, New Zealand
Specifically, this chapter reviews practical issues concerning how ethical values are developed to generate a sense of common purpose across two SME organizations, one in South America and the other in Spain. We used a survey questionnaire covering 12 thematic areas for the pilot study based upon two private language schools. We also critically rev...
A draft set of presentation slides for a proposed executive Education program to be delivered face-to-face and online. The presentation discusses building a measurable culture of integrity across the organisation from top to bottom hierarchically and in depth throughout systems.
KEYWORDS: 3D strategy, tacit knowledge, culture of integrity, intuiti...
Details of Phase 1 of the 2-Phase, MBA Executive Education experiential exercise to accompany the outline Nimbyville paper: a simulated funding bid for a construction project. The presentation slides include team tasks and constraints for the exercise.
Keywords: funding bid, building consortium, teams, MBA, Phase 1
Participants are asked to form a team from a fictional construction business
bidding for a private-public funded development opportunity in New Zealand. The
team discuss and finalise members’ roles by general consensus before drafting the
project technical development plan and bidding strategy for the company’s official
tender to be presented t...
A schematic overview of Focus, Capability and Will, the three key fields for leaders and for managing projects and teams as described in books by Tom Cockburn and Peter A.C. Smith
This is a micro lecture for Exec Ed on complexity theory and leadership in the digital era. Surprises, making sense and sense-making are relevant to teams and projects under dynamic complexity. An overview of Complexity theory offers new insights into living and working within interconnected human systems and organizations in global business.
This teaching case study examines vertical and horizontal integration strategy in a Brazilian restaurant seeking Michelin star recognition. The case study is aimed at senior students and MBAs on Exec Ed programs.
Keywords: vertical and horizontal integration, social context and cultural impact, business development and planning, hospitality
Abstract
A first draft of a paper with a brief history and review of the Cooperative Bank in UK and it's fall from grace as a 'virtuous' eco friendly ethical bank in 2012. A typology of new scenarios and risks relating to eco friendliness is provided.
Keywords: ethical banking, virtuous circles
Suggested Citation:
Jahdi, Khosro and Cockburn, Tom,...
These presentation slides cover the topics of team and leaders´learning to learn and addressing VUCA environments as illustrated in the Cynefin model of Snowden.
The aim of this set of presentation slides is to encourage academics to modify, shape, and improve programs to meet changing expectations of stakeholders and prepare for unforeseen changes in knowledge, methods, markets and means. In addition, a core aim is to Evaluate programs not just personnel in order to assist in meeting emerging accreditation...
This is a 2017 updated version of a presentation on the evolution and development of corporate strategising in the age of VUCA. A brief overview of early economic rationalist explanations equating corporate goals directly with CSR, through the Triple bottom line approach to more up to date scenarios of complexity.
We focus on updating the data on migration, technology and the overview of the three key socio-economic aspects to the globalisation processes, which two of us outlined in 2007. The three C’s: that is comparative advantage; competitive advantage and collaborative advantage as we call them continue to dynamically interact in complex ways. Comparativ...
This is a 6 x 10 table used in the first of a series of corporate MBA residential problem solving sessions to assist action learning sets formed by project teams to evaluate and better-align rewards and behaviours on their research and live consultancy projects. Following individual evaluations teams form to discuss and analyse the resulting data b...
The overarching aim of the strategy is to build a self-sustainable framework of support and development of NZ Cancer Society staff ensuring that is aligned with strategic priorities. That is one which looks first at the financial and organizational performance measures that are most critical to our business. Leadership is called for from senior man...
Abstract
This is a set of slides for an Executive Education class in the 2017 series. The topic is performance management and appraisal of staff and types, models and theories of performance and appraisal are critically analysed, discussed and described.
Keywords: performance, management, appraisal
Suggested Citation:
Cockburn, Tom, Performance Ma...
overview of the process and some suggested templates
Developing and leading Emergence Teams to cope with VUCA conditions on strategic projects in Organizations
introduction to MBAs of the use of sociometry using a 'manual' method on their respective teams' Action learning/research sets' dissertation projects
teams of students engage in a competition to win a challenge cup judged by a panel of industry and academic experts
Draft discussion document concerning ideas for the development of an EU funded project in Lifelong Learning area with potential for Small to Medium Enterprise incubator and employment as well as enhancement of adults' employment prospects in Cardiff
Book Review on 2014 IGI published text by Ulla De Stricker et al.
draft funding application to UNSW Learning & Teaching Fund, 2008-2009
funding application to carry out some perceptual mapping to examine non-cognitive a-rational emotional associations regarding learning spaces in the ASB building at UNSW
overview of stages and sequence of skills training and development
a debate and discussion on alternative perspectives and standpoints with regards to ethics and models of ethical behaviour
An outline decision chart for Exec Ed project teams working on the Roxburgh transport exercise. The chart is used for decision making when random or surprise changes are introduced to the executive simulation exercise.
Cast and props Your resources, cast of heroines or heroes, villains, victims or bystanders form the basis of the archetypal first-project story of the struggle between "good and evil" in terms of the project and its goals. You all contribute to the plot and its final denouement in the last act. Tell us your story of the struggle between good and ev...
Case based action research and advocacy for complainants
overview and summary of general rules for drafting test items to assess learning
Multi-use exploration of housing, environment and project management report-writing (also used for teaching at Wintec and University of Waikato )
overview of the key differences between coaching trainees for skilled performance versus didactic approaches
talk to KPT on technology and changes in work and social life
second in two talks to classes at Waikato Institute of Technology and University of Waikato
talk on Diversity to students at Waikato Institute and Waikato university,New Zealand
Workshop on coaching for nursing staff teaching renal patients to self-care
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Can anyone tell me which publication the above quotation, attributed to Peter Drucker, comes from?
Is there a set of threshold concepts the two disciplines must bridge to communicate or learn effectively from or with each other? Can these be easily or measured?
Literature on learning in ant colonies;type,extent, measures
Learning amongst Ants: some answers
Not exactly what I was seeking but here they are...
Source: Wikipedia
1) “...ants may be the only group apart from mammals where interactive teaching has been observed. A knowledgeable forager of Temnothorax albipennis will lead a naive nest-mate to newly discovered food by the process of tandem running. The follower obtains knowledge through its leading tutor. The leader is acutely sensitive to the progress of the follower and slows down when the follower lags and speeds up when the follower gets too close.[94]( “
94)Franks NR, Richardson T (2006). "Teaching in tandem-running ants". Nature. 439 (7073): 153. Bibcode:2006Natur.439..153F. doi:10.1038/439153a. PMID 16407943.-source: Wikipedia
Controlled experiments with colonies of Cerapachys biroi suggest that an individual may choose nest roles based on her previous experience. An entire generation of identical workers was divided into two groups whose outcome in food foraging was controlled. One group was continually rewarded with prey, while it was made certain that the other failed. As a result, members of the successful group intensified their foraging attempts while the unsuccessful group ventured out fewer and fewer times. A month later, the successful foragers continued in their role while the others had moved to specialise in brood care.[95](
(95)Ravary F, Lecoutey E, Kaminski G, Châline N, Jaisson P (2007). "Individual experience alone can generate lasting division of labor in ants". Current Biology. 17 (15): 1308–1312. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.047. PMID 17629482.-source: Wikipedia
