simon.hayward

Member Since: 11th Feb 2015

Bio

CEO of leadership specialist Cirrus, Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School, author of The Agile Leader: How to create an agile business in the Digital Age and The Connected Leadership: How to build a more agile, customer-focused business.

Simon Hayward

CEO Cirrus

18th Mar 2019

Management hierarchies: are they still necessary in the workplace?

Digital technology has transformed the workplace and companies at the cutting edge are embracing flatter hierarchical management structures...

Change

15th Mar 2017

“It was great to see the enthusiasm for adopting the new way we want to talk to customers"

Since 2008, Tesco Bank has been wholly owned by Tesco plc. 3,000 staff based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle serve 7 million customer...

Business

5th Feb 2016

Unpicking Angela Merkel's 'connected' leadership style

For many years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has had a reputation for being cautious. But her response to the refugee crisis has shown...

Strategy

13th Jan 2015

How can leaders become more inclusive?

Most leaders today recognise the benefits of sharing responsibility. The days of top-down hierarchies are almost behind us. It’s difficult...

Culture

21st Aug 2014

How can Salmond build trust and sway his remaining few?

Following the two-hour live debate on STV earlier this month Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Labour MP Alistair Darling, chairman...

Culture

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