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| FROM LBS Current Students Blog: BIG – BOLD – IMPACT: What to expect at the 2018 LBS Africa Business Summit #LBSABS |
 Debola Williams (Co-Founder, RED) with Bob Collymore (CEO, Safaricom) at the 2017 #LBSABS A year ago I penned this blog post for the 2017 #LBSABS. Sitting now in the library I’m wondering what to write about this year. Should I tell you about what it took to land the President of Ghana? Or what it takes to organize the largest Africa-focused conference at any business school in Europe? Maybe I’ll write about these in a future post. Today I’ll focus on the three words that guided our plans for the Africa Club during our tenure – BIG, BOLD & IMPACT. BIG – #LBSABS has come of age. In its 17th year now, it has taken its place as the go to Africa-focused annual event in London for business professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, people in the arts and students. From its beginnings in a small room, club leaders in recent past have expanded the audience to over 400 truly pan-African guests, hosting them at some of the best venues London has to offer. This year is no different and the summit will hold at the 5-star Landmark Hotel in Marylebone. BOLD – There are many ways we could have gone about delivering on this objective but what could have been bolder than landing the President of one of the fastest growing African countries today – H.E Nana Akufo Addo, President of Ghana. He will be joined at the summit by other notable speakers such as the Chief Executive of Africa Regions at Africa’s largest bank, Standard Bank (Sola David-Borha); CEO of global phosphate group, OCP Group (Mostafa Terrab); Vice President and Treasurer of the International Finance Corporation (Jingdong Hua); CEO of the most profitable African airline and first to use an all-female flight crew, Ethiopian Airlines (Tewolde Gebremariam); Partner at the most prominent Africa-focused private equity firm, Helios Investment Partners (Souleymane Ba); Manager of Afrobeats King, Fela Kuti (Rikki Stein); Co-Founder of Celtel and CEO of Eaton Towers (Terry Rhodes); CEO of Africa’s largest indigenous beauty company, House of Tara (Tara Durotoye); Advisor to French President Macron on entrepreneurship (Karim Sy); Serial entrepreneur who once designed the world’s most expensive suit (Alexander Amosu); Africa venture capital head at IFC (Wale Ayeni); President of Olam Gabon (Gagan Gupta); Executive Director of the best insurance group in Nigeria, AXA Mansard (Tosin Runsewe); Founder of Themis Capital and ex-KKR Principal (Fola Aiyesimoju); the man behind Sony Music’s deals with African music stars Davido and Wizkid (Michael Ugwu); the fashion man himself, Ozwald Boateng; among many others. The summit moderators include Bronwyn Nielsen, Executive Director CNBC Africa; Jonathan Rosenthall, Africa Editor at The Economist; Didi Akinyelure, Journalist at BBC World Service and CNBC Europe; Franklin Amoo, Founder & Partner at Baylis Emerging Markets; Andrew Fassnidge, Founder Africa Tech Summit; and Ade Olufeko, Chief Executive & Strategist at Visual Collaborative.  Some confirmed speakers at the 2018 #LBSABS Basically, we’ve reduced the number of panels this year while ensuring that each seat is filled with high impact speakers representing organizations doing business across the continent. See all speakers at www.lbsabs.com and be on the lookout for more announcements soon! IMPACT: If there’s one thing I’ll take away from my time at London Business School, it’s a significantly better appreciation of the word Impact. It redefined my life priorities and at the #LBSABS level, we pursued this along three verticals:
In summary, “Scaling for Impact” is about exploring the evolving realities of growing businesses at scale in Africa, as well as how to do this while making meaningful impact. The date is May 12. The venue is Landmark Hotel, Marylebone, London. And the event is the 17th London Business School Africa Business Summit. See you there! Adesoji Solanke Co-President – The Africa Club London Business School  The 4th word is: ‘FUN’ – A scene from the 2017 #LBSABS afterparty |
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11 Nov 2021, 03:00
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| FROM LBS Admissions Blog: What is the Leadership Incubator? |
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[b]By Sunita Chambore, Student-led Learning Manager[/b] One of the ways students can develop their leadership skills at LBS is by leading one of over 80 [b][url=https://www.london.edu/masters-degrees/activities-clubs-and-groups]clubs[/url][/b]. Leaders of these clubs can apply to join the Leadership Incubator, a platform for student leaders to discover, develop, and practice their leadership competencies. In its seventh year, the Leadership Incubator is a partnership between three teams at LBS: Experiential Learning, the [url=https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/leadership-institute][b]Leadership Institute[/b][/url], and the [url=https://know-how.london.edu/][b]Career Centre[/b][/url]. The Leadership Incubator learning journey starts in October each year and takes students with leadership roles on an iterative collective exploration and experimentation process. An essential part of the Leadership Incubator encourages students to uncover their leadership values. [b]Values and intention[/b] Understanding your values as a leader allows you to tackle challenges, make decisions and take action with [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxnT6q_XK84][b]intention[/b][/url]. There might only be a limited number of steps you can take to address any given challenge, but how you get there and how you leave people feeling will depend on your values. In the first Leadership Incubator workshop of 2021-22, students delved into what made them tick. As all leadership begins from [url=https://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2018/05/coactive_leadership.html][b]within[/b][/url], they mapped out the values they know they possess and uncovered those that maybe unconsciously a part of them. The students worked in groups of three through a series of exercises where their potential values were reflected back to them. [b]Uncovering leadership values in 10 minutes[/b] First, individuals took it in turns to share a story in two minutes about someone they admire. This could be anyone, a family member, faculty, business leader, or friend. Whilst one of them shared their story, the other two group members were listening out for [url=https://jamesclear.com/core-values][b]values[/b][/url]. They jotted each one down on a post-it. Some of the values that came up for one of the groups included: [list][*]Achievement[/*][*]Success[/*][*]Compassion[/*][*]Order[/*][*]Recognition[/*][*]Kindness[/*][/list] Second, everyone shared a story about a time when they sparkled. When did they last feel on top of the world? Where were they? What were they doing? Who were they with? As each person shared their story for two minutes, the other two wrote down each value they heard on a post-it. Finally, each individual had one minute to let off some steam and vent about what they found annoying in other people. The listeners flipped what they heard to extract a value. For example, if they heard ‘rudeness’, they would jot down ‘respect’, or if the person speaking found ‘greed’ annoying, they wrote down ‘fairness’. [b]Making sense of values[/b] After three rounds, each student had amassed several post-it notes! Working individually, they spread out all the post-its that were gifted to them by their peers. They went to work organising them into themes and then named each meta-theme. For example, if there were post-its with values such as collaboration, friendships, connection, the meta-theme might be ‘community’. The Co-President of the LatAm Club, [url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/daria-eimbcke/][b]Daria Eimbcke Bosch[/b] [b]MBA2022[/b][/url], took part in the session. She reflected on the importance of this exercise in understanding her values and appreciating those of others: “I realised that freedom and having fun in the process are essential values to me. This was an interesting juxtaposition to drive and ambition, which I always knew were critical values of mine.” [b][url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-vennin/]Sam Vennin MBA2022[/url][/b], Healthcare Club Co-President, learned that the values he admired in others are the ones that he strives to acquire and display in his leadership practice. As a result of this workshop, Sam highlights the top three values he would like to take forward as a leader at LBS and beyond: “[b]Empathy[/b]: to better understand the people I am leading and find ways to empower them to achieve their objectives and develop their skills. [b]Authenticity[/b]: to build trust with my team and never lose sight of my purpose. [b]Impact-focus: [/b]to be a change agent in delivering projects and my team members’ development and career progression.” [url=https://www.london.edu/think/rethinking-authenticity][b]Authenticity[/b][/url], which has been researched by LBS faculty, emerged as a popular value within the Leadership Incubator and was also one of Daria’s core values. The Leadership Incubator encourages students to reflect on their leadership style and the impact they want to have on the world. A vital component of leadership is understanding your values, so decisions and actions are thoughtfully taken. This workshop was delivered as part of the Leadership Incubator, a platform for student leaders to discover, develop and practice their leadership competencies. If you’d like to know more about the Leadership Incubator, please get in touch with [b][[email protected]][email protected][/email][/b]. The post [url=https://admissionsblog.london.edu/what-is-the-leadership-incubator/]What is the Leadership Incubator?[/url] appeared first on [url=https://admissionsblog.london.edu]Student and Admissions Blog - London Business School[/url]. |
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| FROM LBS Admissions Blog: My experience of the LBS Diwali Ball |
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By Varun Rekhi, MBA2023 Recently, I was fortunate enough to attend the LBS Diwali Ball – an annual tradition honouring the Indian festival of lights. The ball was a successful event – a sell-out crowd of 50+ nationalities, two buzzing cocktail bars, potentially instagrammable lighting, and a boatload of “Thank yous” and “Omg did you find my jacket?” messages the morning after.  For a lot of us Indians, this was our moment to share, live and celebrate our culture with our friends on campus. As the dance performances of the night gradually ended, there was a moment of reflection, of nostalgia of missing home amidst the loud thumping of the dhol (Pictured here: dhol performance at the LBS Diwali Ball ’21 as captured by Adhiraj Chand – MBA’23). For most of us LBS students, home can mean a lot of things. For me, home was always New Delhi, India and then New York during my later years. I’ve often felt that I lived in a grey area with my identity, having such strong memories of India but having my formative years in New York; both such culturally diverse places. Your identity creates your competitive advantage For a lot of Indians, we value education and discipline in one parallel. We value the nuclear family and communal development in another parallel. We value relationships and the importance of globalization in another parallel. Most importantly, we value staying true to our cultural identity and sharing those values with those around us. At the ball it was amazing to see the amalgamation of the values of the Indian diaspora. A student’s mum from New Delhi had hand-picked Indian outfits for friends from Switzerland, Lebanon, Colombia and Peru. An Indian Sikh from Thailand taught bhangra to people from Argentina and Ecuador. Another Indian taught a Dutch-Californian how to drape a sari in the proper traditional way. Your life experiences define who you are Having an insight into how your experience makes you who you are can be the most rewarding journey. There is no better place to nurture that than at LBS. I’ve found that your life experiences before business school will directly impact how you react to different situations whilst at business school, and how you approach challenges. My early experiences in business highlighted to me what I wanted to change and helped me learn what I’m good at. I pride myself on being able to adapt to whatever situation I’m presented with and the people I’m around. Stay true to yourself Studying at LBS challenges you to think and perform tasks outside of your comfort zone. Whilst it’s good to adopt new skills it’s important to stay true to who you are. After the initial excitement at the beginning of my MBA, I was able to fully grasp what matters to me and what I can bring not only to the business world but also to the relationships in my life. If you’ve made it until here, here is where I’ll end. A changing workforce of the next two decades will heavily be reliant on the soft skills that differentiate us. As societies, innovators and optimists continually look to decentralize the access to information and education, our competitive advantage will be driven by what we can offer as humans and not as data-centric robots. Continue to have fun and enjoy the ride  The post My experience of the LBS Diwali Ball appeared first on Student and Admissions Blog - London Business School. |
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