Posted by: Lauren Durrani on July 27, 2016
Everyone in the room, starting to wrap up their laptops, folder, packing bags, rushing towards the exit doors, waving goodbyes walking out of Oxford Saïd and off to their destinations. Only when the lights turned off, is when I realised how precious these days were that shaped module 3. Every 6th week getting ready, packing bags, […]
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Posted by: Angel Rivero Palomo on June 9, 2016
It was the moment to close the window´s curtains; suddenly I was standing on a beautiful portrait, one of those that capture all senses and convince a spirit that there is something memorable on the air. Standing on the hotel balcony that night in Oxford watching the city´s colours and sounds – full of energetic […]
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Posted by: Renata Frolova on March 17, 2016
The University of Oxford. Saïd Business School. All eager to learn, a cohort of 51 have taken their seats in the lecture theater six. The topics of this week are: leadership, motivation, power, leading culture, building high performance teams, leading change, and institutional complexity. The amount of reading is overwhelming, but no sweat, we are […]
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Posted by: Johnny Vance on March 16, 2016
In October of 2014, my CEO emailed me out of the blue to ask whether I would be interested in doing a Postgraduate Diploma programme at Oxford. Naturally, I was honoured to be asked, and was intrigued by the possibilities of the program. I was told to brush up my resume (fortunately, I hadn’t needed […]
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Posted by: Scott Laverty on October 12, 2015
As Module 3 of the Diploma in Organisational Leadership approached in June, my excitement became evident to my wife. Being raised on a family ranch farm in Oklahoma, attending school in a small town before joining the United States Marine Corps, serving 25+ years in the military with multiple combat missions in service to my […]
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Posted by: Simon Bracher on August 25, 2015
The third module for the Diploma in Organisational Leadership addressed the topics of organisational complexity and change. The excellent duo of Tim Morris and Namrata Malhotra were our faculty for the module, and once again I felt immensely privileged to be exposed to their depth of knowledge and experience on the subject matter. Both Tim […]
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Posted by: Frank Durnford on May 7, 2015
It’s 5:30am. My alarm is buzzing harshly. This cannot be right. It’s Sunday. Clearly, I’ve forgotten to turn my alarm to its “weekday only” setting. Only I haven’t forgotten. No, I begrudgingly admit to myself, this isn’t a mistake. I set the alarm on purpose. We are having our first Skype call among the 2015 […]
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Posted by: Anthony Mitchell on May 7, 2015
For me, the Diploma of Organisational Leadership has been inspirational. The inspiration has come from multiple sources, and, often, from places that I had not anticipated. When you come to Oxford you expect to be inspired by brilliant minds. And when it happens and you interact with a person whose intellect is razor sharp, it […]
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Posted by: Ellen Mackenbach on May 6, 2015
After completing a very motivating and inspiring first module for the Diploma in Organisational Leadership, it is time to go home and relax, but only for a short time. After a few weeks we receive the business case as preparation for the exam. Although all of us know that taking a formal exam is part […]
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Posted by: Simon Bracher on May 2, 2015
The second residential week of the Diploma in Organisational Leadership at Oxford kicked off with our first two hour examination. “Gowning up” in Sub Fusc for the examination, as is traditional at Oxford, added to the excitement and somewhat nervousness for most of us for whom it had been a while since we had last […]
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