Facing so many pressures today’s most astute managers know the value of reflection before action. Like Peter Senge, they know that ‘the quality of our thinking affects the quality of everything we do’. A Better Way to Manage offers a unique chance to sample leading-edge thinking, acquire fresh insights and experience the power of philosophical techniques from leading philosophers and management authorities with international experience and reputations, while networking with like-minded managers.

Organised by Reason in Practice: The Journal of Philosophy of Management in association with the Forum for European Philosophy.

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Thursday 27 June

Why Don’t Ethics Programmes Work?
Andrew Bartlett and David Seth Preston
Directors of Knowledge Workers

Here two experienced consultants reveal how self-deception sabotages ethics programmes and suggest some ways ahead.

Workshop: Building a Culture of Trust
Jeremy Aitken, Director, Tri-Learning Corporation Pty and Managing Director of The Culture Collective

Australian consultant Jeremy Aitken brings to the UK for the first time his dramaticlly simple and powerful approach to building trust in today’s organisations. Based on the prisoner’s dilemma, it offers a profound, insightful and compelling take on the problems of trust that remain after the reengineers and culture change-agents have moved on... Jeremy will be showing his two videos for managers as part of the participative workshop.

Managing: Whose Interests Count?

Companies and Their Interests
Chris Higson, Associate Professor of Accountancy
London Business School

The Right To Manage and the Place of Regulation
Robert McLaren, Professor of Public and International Administration, University of Regina, Canada

Need a company’s interests confliect with those of other stakeholders? Does regulation really restrict the right to manage? Explore and debate these questions with two experienced management teachers.

Workshop: The PROGRESS Way to Wise Decisions
David Arnaud and Tim LeBon
Consultant Philosophers

Learn how to make genuinely wise decisions, ones you and your people can live with at work and at home. Two consultant philosophers will demonstrate their PROGRESS method with a live example submitted by a member of their audience.

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