-
If your good ideas keep getting ignored…
Here are three things you can try. Number 1: Seek first to understand, then be understood. It’s Stephen Covey’s 5th habit. Before you tell people what you think, find out…
-
How to get Claude to sound more human…
Too flouncy. Make it more concise, direct and in language targeted at a talented undergraduate (not a philosophy professor with time on her hands). How to get Claude to sound…
-
The Leadership vs Management trap…
It was past 7pm. Again. I was still at my desk. Again. I was a new Head of Department. Working flat out and going nowhere… Finance needed the budget spreadsheet…
-
Too many metrics?
I’m a numbers guy. Pure Mathematics PhD. I want the raw spreadsheet. I want to start a story with “1000 delegates, 300 papers, 25 countries…” But as we set academic…
-
Your map is not the terrain.
In 1931 Alfred Korzybski pointed out that when we construct a mathematical model (a map) it cannot encompass everything about the actual system being modelled (the terrain). But all of…
-
It’s one of the hardest jobs at every University.
Department Chair. Head of Department. Head of School. Line managing a big group of staff. Making sure the teaching gets allocated and done in accordance with the QA framework. Balancing…
-
AI vs homework (getting the lesson wrong)
Lots of people posted about the story of a study by David Stromberg, Victor Lei and Yanhui Wu on 27,000 students in China and how those using AI completed homework…
-
The trouble with AI slides
“Sorry. Can you email me these slides? I can’t read them on the screen.” In our Boardroom. With a big screen. I was 4m away. And the text was so…
-
We should stop worrying about the impact of AI…
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. The market will default to using the tool for cost cutting. It always does. But I think we have to stop worrying how…
-
The Director of Research at Microsoft shocked all of us.
It was at a graph theory workshop. Full of big names from academia and industry on computing and discrete mathematics. Talking about small worlds and the impact of high-degree nodes…
Navigation
About
Professor Ben Cosh provides confident, collegiate leadership in universities. He is currently Provost at UTP in Malaysia. Previously he was Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education Modernisation at Kent and Dean of Science at Reading.
A modern leadership playbook for new managers and anyone looking to make leading simple.
“Written with clarity and humanity in abundance. Filled with real, pragmatic guidance and insight.”
Nick, Amazon Review
