Thoughts from Staff College……..our current Faculty Blog

A Time for Change

In our most recent Faculty blog, Mark Edwards suggests we need to capitalise on experience to help focus and reimagine the world we practice within.

Read Mark’s blog here

Spoilt for choice
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
9 February 2023
Read David’s blog here

New Years “Resolutions”
John MackMersh
12 January 2023
Read John’s blog here

Game of Inches
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
14 December 2022
Read Ian’s blog here

V is for victory, vendetta, validation, or chaos
Dr Yogi Amin
10 November 2022
Read Yogi’s blog here

Choices, systems, people, uncertainty
Mr Mark Edwards
13 October 2022
Read Mark’s blog here

The business of all leaders
Major General (Retd) Julian Free CBE
16 September 2022
Read Julian’s blog here

The Illusion of Building Confidence, 1805 and all that!
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
11 August 2022
Read David’s blog here

Vive la Révolution
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
14 July 2022
Read Ian’s blog here

Dealing with the Enemy
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
16 June 2022
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Cuckoo Problems
John MackMersh
13 May 2022
Read John’s blog here

The NHS Moonshot
Mr Mark Edwards
14 April 2022
Read Mark’s blog here

I was doing my ironing
Dr Gordon Coutts
9 March 2022
Read Gordon’s blog here

Predicting not thinking in the moment
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
10 February 2022
Read David’s blog here

When is a party not a party?
John MackMersh
13 January 2022
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Are we protecting the NHS or protecting the beast?
Dr Gordon Coutts
9 December 2021
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The Importance of being Average
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
25 November 2021
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Remembrance
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
11 November 2021
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Shrek is a Systems Guru
Dr Gordon Coutts
28 October 2021
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Teamwork: Thinking Errors
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
14 October 2021
Read David’s blog here

Back to the future?
John MackMersh
30 September 2021
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“Space the final frontier….”
Dr Gordon Coutts
16 September 2021
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“There is nothing so practical as a good theory”
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
2 September 2021
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Introspection
John MackMersh
19 August 2021
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Aidan
Dr Yogi Amin
6 August 2021
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“Vladivostok, Tokyo and Risk”
Dr Gordon Coutts
22 July 2021
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“Communication let me down”
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
8 July 2021
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“Come on you Execs!!”
John MackMersh
24 June 2021
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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
Dr Yogi Amin
10 June 2021
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What have water polo and football got in common?
Dr Gordon Coutts
27 May 2021
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An ignorant can teach another ignorant what he doesn’t know himself
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
13 May 2021
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Anthroprocission
John MackMersh
29 April 2021
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Meeting, Zooming, Teaming….exhaustion!
Dr Yogi Amin
15 April 2021
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I really need a haircut
Dr Gordon Coutts
1 April 2021
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Resilience: All at Sea
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
18 March 2021
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The wrong kind of…..
John MackMersh
4 March 2021
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Recovery Club: “The things you own end up owning you”
Dr Yogi Amin
18 February 2021
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“to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle”
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
4 February 2021
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We get what we value
Dr Gordon Coutts
21 January 2021
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Happy New Year!! But….The New Year or…. A New Year?
John MackMersh
7 January 2021
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Don’t Panic!
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
17 December 2020
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Choices
Dr Yogi Amin
3 December 2020
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Vaccines, choices and moral value
Dr Gordon Coutts
19 November 2020
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Negative Capability and Deputies: A Leadership Solution?
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
5 November 2020
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Climate Change
John MackMersh
22 October 2020
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On the other hand
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
8 October 2020
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Medice, cura te ipsum (Physician, heal thyself)
Dr Yogi Amin
24 September 2020
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A system creates some of its own potential
Dr Gordon Coutts
10 September 2020
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Common Practice
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
27 August 2020
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Learning the Lessons……from learning the lessons
John MackMersh
13 August 2020
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How to improve productivity and be a better leader
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
30 July 2020
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Past, present, future
Dr Yogi Amin
16 July 2020
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A letter to myself as a former CEO of an acute hospital trust
Dr Gordon Coutts
2 July 2020
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Where does leadership take us?
Captain David Lilley Royal Navy
18 June 2020
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Can we talk about leadership without using the ‘C’ word?
John MackMersh
4 June 2020
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Supporting Leaders through Lockdown and Beyond
Brigadier Ian Huntley OBE
22 May 2020
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