Prof. Lynda Gratton
London Business School

Dr Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs the school's executive programme, "Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations".

Over the last decade Lynda has led The Leading Edge Research Consortium (www.london.edu/lerc), a major research initiative involving companies such as Hewlett Packard and Citibank. The initial results from the research were published by Oxford University Press in 2000 in the book "Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality".

In "Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose", published by FT/Prentice Hall in 2000, Lynda called for a more strategic approach to people management. The book has been translated into seven languages and was voted one of the 20 most influential books by American CEOs. More recently she has addressed the issue of organisational purpose in, "The Democratic Enterprise: Liberating Your Business with Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment", published by FT/Prentice Hall in 2004.
Lynda is acknowledged as one of the world's most influential thinkers in HR Strategy. She serves on the advisory boards of Exult and the Concours Group and consults to a wide range of multinational companies including Shell, Unilever, Royal Bank of Scotland and HP.
In 2004 Lynda was appointed a Research Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management in the UK (www.aim-research.org) and is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Resource Strategy at Michigan Business School.

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Building cooperative organizations: the leadership role

In this session Professor Lynda Gratton presents her recent research on the creation of cooperative organizations. She builds on examples from Nokia and BP to describe the role of leaders in this crucial endeavour.