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title: Cranfield Executive Development Blog | leadership (6)
description: leadership |  (6)
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<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/the-performance-project>

![The Performance Project: Performance at the Edge](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/fi%20pixs.jpg)

By [Pippa Bourne](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/pippa-bourne)

## [The Performance Project: Performance at the Edge](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/the-performance-project)

#### When you think about F1 motor racing, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think about the noise of the cars, that powerful deep roar...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [featured leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-leadership), [featured sidebar all](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-sidebar-all),

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/resilient-organisational-cultures-dont-just-happen-by-chance>

![Resilient organisational cultures don’t just happen by chance; so are you developing your leaders to create one?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/2-blog-image-_abstract-92.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Lester%20-%20white.jpg) By [Lester Coupland](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/lester-coupland)

## [Resilient organisational cultures don’t just happen by chance; so are you developing your leaders to create one?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/resilient-organisational-cultures-dont-just-happen-by-chance)

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 Tags: [Cranfield School of Management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/cranfield-school-of-management), [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [featured leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-leadership),

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/https/blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/key-practices-of-presence>

![Key Practices of Presence](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Why-The-Art-of-Being-Present-Matters.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Diana%20Theodores.png) By [Dr Diana Theodores](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-diana-theodores)

## [Key Practices of Presence](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/https/blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/key-practices-of-presence)

**Presence is about being present**

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [featured leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-leadership), [featured sidebar all](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-sidebar-all),

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/are-you-ready-to-share-leadership>

![Supply Chain Leaders - Are you ready to share leadership?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Are_you_ready_to_share_leadership_blog_image_July19.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/wilding.jpeg) By [Professor Richard Wilding OBE](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/professor-richard-wilding-obe)

## [Supply Chain Leaders - Are you ready to share leadership?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/are-you-ready-to-share-leadership)

**Make a Google search for images of ‘[leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/lessons-from-the-movies)’ and see what the word still implies: there’s one person at the front of the...**

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 Tags: [Cranfield School of Management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/cranfield-school-of-management), [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [featured learning](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-learning),

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/high-performance-leadership-promoting-executive-leadership>

![High Performance Leadership: promoting executive leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/EDM_LiLHPL.jpg)

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## [High Performance Leadership: promoting executive leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/high-performance-leadership-promoting-executive-leadership)

#### For almost two decades, Cranfield’s High Performance Leadership programme has revolutionised the way leaders achieve results...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [talent](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/talent), [career](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/career)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/recession-is-it-hard-to-prepare-for-hard-times-to-come>

![Recession? Is it time to prepare for hard times to come?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/ED%20Blog/ED%20Live%20Site%20Files/BLOG_IMAGES/Building-resilience-from-within.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/bourne.jpeg) By [professor mike bourne](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/professor-mike-bourne)

## [Recession? Is it time to prepare for hard times to come?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/recession-is-it-hard-to-prepare-for-hard-times-to-come)

#### The fall in the retail sales figures in May could be a one off blip (or common cause variation) but given the slower growth in...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [featured leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-leadership), [featured sidebar all](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-sidebar-all),

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/elephants-performance-measurement-and-management>

![Elephants & Performance Measurement and Management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/elephant%20pixs.jpg)

By [Pippa Bourne](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/pippa-bourne)

## [Elephants & Performance Measurement and Management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/elephants-performance-measurement-and-management)

#### “Performance measurement is really all about finance. Right?” Someone said this to me recently at a meeting I attended and it...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [featured leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-leadership), [featured sidebar all](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/featured-sidebar-all),

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/make-strategy-thats-powered-by-ethos>

![Make strategy that's powered by ethos](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/PFTL%20article%202019.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/dom.jpg) By [Dr Dominik Heil](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-dominik-heil)

## [Make strategy that's powered by ethos](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/make-strategy-thats-powered-by-ethos)

#### Stepping up to being CEO, or any strategic role for that matter, is daunting and disorienting. Suddenly the organisation that...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [impact](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/impact)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/how-to-unlock-hidden-high-performance>

![How to unlock hidden high performance](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/IAI_Hero_image.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/dom.jpg) By [Dr Dominik Heil](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-dominik-heil)

## [How to unlock hidden high performance](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/how-to-unlock-hidden-high-performance)

#### Large scale organisations are all around us, having such a profound influence on our lives, and yet, they aren’t what we think...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [impact](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/impact), [career](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/career)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/case-study-how-learning-to-delegate-allowed-me-time-to-focus-on-the-bigger-issues>

![“How learning to delegate allowed me time to focus on the bigger issues’’.](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/IMG_2766.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/CGMD%20Blog/Images/CGMD%20Images/Logos/Marques-SoM.png) By [Cranfield School of Management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/cranfield-school-of-management)

## [“How learning to delegate allowed me time to focus on the bigger issues’’.](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/case-study-how-learning-to-delegate-allowed-me-time-to-focus-on-the-bigger-issues)

#### Trust. Now there’s a scary word, right? Trusting other people to do what you know you could do well, but shouldn’t be focusing...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [reflections](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/reflections), [career](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/career)

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