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Sir John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large UK organisations today.

John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large UK organisations today, talking to past and present leaders of the NHS, Marks and Spencer, the BBC and other major institutions.

In the light of recent problems of leadership in many of our large organisations, public and private, Sir John Tusa, former Head of the BBC World Service and London's Barbican Centre, takes an objective look at the state of leadership in large UK organisations today.

He talks to a range of leaders, from one who employs 3000 people to one who employed 1.3 million. He asks how dispersed leadership can really be and when it needs to be focussed in one individual. He explores the difficulties of leading organisations that are enormously complex - often with blurred lines of accountability. And he probes the gaps - in pay, culture and values - that can emerge between leaders and led.

Along the way he watches a charismatic lecture in leadership at London Business School, and hears from some of its recipients. He goes with John Timpson CBE to pay surprise visits on the staff of some of his many shops. And he visits a fast-growing young company to find out how they took on specialist leaders to join the founders, and how that has changed the company's culture.

With:
Lucy Armstrong (The Alchemists)
Lord (Tony) Hall (Director-General, BBC)
Margaret Hodge MP (Chair, Public Accounts Committee)
Sir Andrew Likierman (Dean, London Business School)
Tarek Nseir (CEO, TH_NK)
Sir David Nicholson (ex-Chief Executive, NHS England)
Jesse Norman MP (Treasury Select Committee)
Sir Hugh Orde (President, ACPO; former Chief Constable of Northern Ireland)
Pat Ritchie (Chief Executive, Newcastle City Council)
Sir Stuart Rose (ex-CEO, Marks and Spencer)
Dame Nancy Rothwell (Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester)
Sir Martin Sorrell (Chief Executive of WPP)
John Timpson CBE (Chair and ex-CEO of Timpsons)

PRODUCER: Phil Tinline.

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John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large UK organisations today.

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