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Alistair Mant, Chairman, Socio-Technical Strategy Group
Alistair Mant is an international authority on leadership development and executive talent identification. He is Chairman of the UK-based Socio-Technical Strategy Group – a brokerage for carrying out studies of system function and dysfunction. The Group’s work rests mainly on socio-technical systems theory. This concerns the natural properties of complex organisational and political systems at the point where operations and human nature interact – where expensive and embarrassing cockups and blunders occur.
Born in Australia, Alistair spends a third of each year working with private and public sector clients in Australasia. He appears regularly on the conference circuit, dealing with leadership, systems thinking, modernisation of government (implementing “joined-up” thinking), organisation structure and the strategic aspects of human resource management and development. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, specialising in enterprise and innovation.
His books include The Experienced Manager (which won the Institute of Management’s “Bowie Medal”), The Rise & Fall of the British Manager, Bismarck to Bullock – Conversations about Political & Industrial Contrasts in Britain & Germany, The Dynamics of Management Education, and Leaders We Deserve (recently reissued in a special Australian edition) and the best-seller Intelligent Leadership.
He has a global portfolio of executive role consultation clients and is a member of the Global Coaching Partnership, based in London. As executive coach, he has a special practice in the public/private grey area (values-driven companies and businesslike government). He is also the Strategy Advisor to the Employers’ Forum on Disability – an organisation of blue chip member companies which is the leading European body driving systemic change in the provision of real employment and facilities for disabled people.
His background includes business experience, mainly in the IBM Corporation, consultancy (specialising in government, health, transportation and the “creative” trades – publishing, education, advertising, etc), research (Senior Social Scientist at the Tavistock Institute in London) and academia (Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School and Dean of Faculty at the South Bank University in London).
Alistair Mant talks about:
Intelligent Leadership
The Dynamics of Management
Social Entrepreneurs
The Third Way
Systems Thinking
Modernisation of Government
Organisational Structure
Strategic Aspects of Human Resource Management and Development
Comments about Alistair Mant ...
Alistair Mant is an Australian – amongst the most original of his generation – and he seems to have come up with an analysis of this country’s present condition which nobody else has quite matched for depth and point.
CLIVE JAMES on "THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH MANAGER"
An exciting, frightening, stimulating analysis of what makes leaders tick and get elected….. Anyone in any way concerned with taking or thinking about leadership should read it.
PROF. RICHARD BECKHAND on "LEADERS WE DESERVE"
I could not put the book down, and when I had to I could not wait until I got back to it. It is not only the best book on the subject that I have ever read, it is by far the most captivating. A masterpiece!
PROF. RUSSELL L. ACKOFF, EMERITUS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, THE WHARTON SCHOOL on "INTELLIGENT LEADERSHIP"
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