Notes that a significant number of experienced senior executives are making themselves available as leased executives. Discusses the leased executive′s role and provides two case studies. Concludes that its benefits as a resourcing option are now becoming clear to many UK organisations who are...

Draws attention to the need for managers to re‐examine the dominant world view paradigm within which managing currently takes place. Uses the analogy of a salmon struggling up river to show management today as an uncertain journey from the narrow convergence of the paradigm downstream to the...

This paper is based on an empirical study of attempts to achieve change in clinical behaviour across a United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) Health Authority (HA). We suggest that the evidence based medicine (EBM) movement underpinning such attempts is premised upon a highly rationalistic...