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7 Maverick Leaders and their Management Lessons
16.October.2020
From Steve Jobs to Florence Nightingale, these maverick leaders have got management lessons to teach us all
From Forbes to The Daily Mail, the media love maverick leaders. Their colourful antics, innovative products, unusual techniques – disruptors in the business space are celebrated like pop stars on social media as well. However, maverick leaders have been with us far longer than WhatsApp and Twitter, and there’s a lot we can learn from them – particularly the ones that have lasted the course.
Across business, politics, environmentalism, medicin and sport – here we’ve picked out seven leaders whose maverick styles still have plenty of worthwhile substance.
Steve Jobs
Although Steve Jobs is credited with turning Apple from a brand into a religion, not all of his ideas were a success. Not many have heard of the Lisa home computer, or his NeXT workstations. However, Jobs’ passion and determination led to th
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History’s Greatest Strategists: Dame Anita Roddick
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of a multitude of people. And in the past few months, the world has undergone a number of crisis episodes.
In this series, we use the Step Change creativity tool to show how some of history’s greatest strategists might apply their strategies to the current crisis. The strategist for the day is a pioneer for green entrepreneurship who changed the game for beauty brands alltid, Dame Anita Roddick.
When looking for their favourite beauty products, the words “cruelty-free”, “ethically-sourced” and “natural” may be a staple for a lot of people’s online searches today. But more than just mere words, businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner Dame Anita Roddick considered them as her way of life. Her social commitment provided a foundation for her beauty empire, The Body Shop, which has unapologetically stood for these values since the very beginning– going again•
Dame Anita Roddick, DBE (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries.
Roddick was involved in activism and campaigning for environmental and social issues including involvement with Greenpeace and The Big Issue. In 1990, Roddick founded ‘Children On The Edge’, a charitable organization which helps disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe and Asia.
In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Roddick a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Anita Roddick was born in a bomb shelter in Littlehampton, Sussex the daughter of Italian immigrants who had recently arrived in England from Naples.
After school,