At the beginning of September, we’re often encouraged in the church to start to plan for Christmas. So naturally my thoughts have turned to a Christmas Carol, and the figures of the three ghosts. I’m sure that Dickens’ novella has been seen as an allegory for leadership elsewhere, but I was wondering how many people in…

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Our Honorary Secretary, Derek McAuley, completes his second three year term as a Trustee in December this year, and this is the maximum time that our Trust Deed permits anyone to serve. Derek has been an excellent Secretary, which means that he leaves the role in very good shape, and will be happy to be…

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Too many years working in Business Schools have made me wary of discussions about ‘ethics’, which have often either entailed codes that are too boring to remember, or have attracted the attention of those who have big problems with behaving ethically. Of course this is unfair – there have been some pearls of excellent and…

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by Tim Harle, former Vice-Chair of MODEM. On the title page of his 2015 memoir[i], Rudge describes himself as ‘Student, Hitchhiker, Anglican Priest, Management Consultant in Churches, Tax Agent, Book Reviewer, Garden Designer, Sportsman, Scholar, Author’.  Others can speak of his contribution to tax consultancy, garden design and croquet (on which he published several books);…

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