A pleasant surprise in the email tonight while awaiting a Ryan Air flight to Shannon.
It is with pleasure that I write to inform you that your paper with Mary Boone, “Any leader’s framework for decision making,” published in the Harvard Business Review, has been selected as the 2007 Best Practitioner-Oriented Paper in Organizational Behavior by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.
I had no idea we were even being considered! Funnily enough over dinner at Warwick University Yasmin was asking me if I was going to the Academy this year and I wasn't sure. Now I think I will! Last time it was an award for original contributions to Knowledge Management, but this time it feels a lot better. The citation reads:
This paper introduces an important new perspective that has enormous future value, and does so in a clear way that shows it can be used.
[The article] makes several significant contributions. First, and most importantly, it introduces complexity science to guide managers' thoughts and actions. Second, it applies this perspective to advance a typology of contexts to help leaders to sort out the wide variety of situations in which they must lead decisions. Third, it advises leaders concerning what actions they should take in response.
Comments (12)
Congrats!
Posted by Karyn Romeis | June 11, 2008 9:45 PM
Posted on June 11, 2008 21:45
Congratulations!
Posted by Euan W Semple | June 11, 2008 10:02 PM
Posted on June 11, 2008 22:02
Hi Dave I am so pleased to see your thinking has been recognised in this way. I know it has taken years of hard work, perseverance and effort to develop and then articlute your thinking to others. You have made a huge contribution to my practice and approach to leadership and organisation development.
I find your ideas resonate strongly with people. They get it. The concepts help them make sense of the complex world they work in.
Thank you most of all though for being a very generous and good human being. That is probably your finest achievement.
Well done and well deserved. It is great to be a winner.
Stand up.
Posted by anne mcmurray | June 11, 2008 10:08 PM
Posted on June 11, 2008 22:08
Dave ... CONGRATS ! This is great recognition of your work and thought leadershi :-)
Posted by Jimmy Kwang | June 12, 2008 1:12 AM
Posted on June 12, 2008 01:12
Congratulations, Dave. Let's hope and expect that yours and your colleagues' thinking and the CE network of practitioners will continue to advocate for and lead real change in the management of organizations.
Posted by Jon Husband | June 12, 2008 2:35 AM
Posted on June 12, 2008 02:35
Llongyfarchion a'r y Cymro.
Da iawn, Dafydd, da iawn.
Posted by Iwan Jenkins | June 12, 2008 3:33 AM
Posted on June 12, 2008 03:33
This is brilliant - congratulations!
Posted by Serena Joyner | June 12, 2008 12:43 PM
Posted on June 12, 2008 12:43
This is fantastic news Dave! I am so thrilled for you! I am very excited that the insight you share is being recognized for having the value it has - this acknowledgement will also help those of us who have plugged away trying to make change in a world that keeps trying to address complex problems the same way time and again. So...thank you for moving down this path to produce a piece that will only bring more attention to the full body of work you have completed. You deserve this - and many more ;)
Posted by Cindy Russell | June 12, 2008 1:14 PM
Posted on June 12, 2008 13:14
Hi Dave,
Congratulation. Well deserved award. Hope this helps to spread the word of your work to a much wider audience as the world badly needs it. Not just business, but the world at large.
Posted by Harold | June 12, 2008 9:05 PM
Posted on June 12, 2008 21:05
Well done, and very much deserved. Can we now have a Sticky Stigma joke competition to gather some material for your acceptance speech - which of course you must podcast.
Posted by Ron Donaldson | June 12, 2008 10:15 PM
Posted on June 12, 2008 22:15
Just discovered this news today. Congratulations! Well deserved.
Posted by Shawn Callahan | August 9, 2008 11:06 PM
Posted on August 9, 2008 23:06
Congratulations Dave!
I just heard the news, much deserved recognition! Looking forward to the podcast of your acceptance speech.
Posted by Gloria Fox | August 14, 2008 3:27 PM
Posted on August 14, 2008 15:27