Biography

Rob Goffee is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. He has led several of the School's major executive programmes, acted as Chair for the Organisational Behaviour Group, served as Deputy Dean and Governor, Director of the Innovation Exchange and Faculty Director of Executive Education.

Rob has led significant executive development and corporate change initiatives in Europe, North America and Asia. His work has covered a range of industries with a focus on leadership, change and corporate performance. His consulting clients have included Anglo-American, Axa, Electronic Arts, Heineken, InterContinental Hotels, KPMG, Legal and General, MLIM, Nestle, Roche, Singapore Airlines and Unilever.

Rob has published ten books and over seventy articles in the areas of entrepreneurship, managerial careers, organisation design, leadership and corporate culture. His books include The Entrepreneurial Middle Class; Women in Charge; Entrepreneurship in Europe; Reluctant Managers; Corporate Realities; The Character of a Corporation; and Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? His articles feature in Harvard Business Review, Leader to Leader, European Business Forum, Business Strategy Review, Management Today, People Management and The Financial Times.

He is the recipient of several teaching excellence awards and has contributed as a keynote speaker to conferences all over the world. He is a recipient of the McKinsey Award for best article in Harvard Business Review and contributes regularly to TV and radio business programmes. His latest book, Clever - Leading your Smartest Most Creative People, co-authored with Gareth Jones, will be published by Harvard Business School Press in 2009.

Publications

I. Books

R. Scase and R. Goffee, The Real World of the Small Business Owner, Croom Helm, London, 1980.

R. Scase and R. Goffee, The Entrepreneurial Middle Class, Croom Helm, London 1982, (reprinted 1984).

R. Goffee and R. Scase, Women in Charge, Allen & Unwin, London 1985.

R. Scase and R. Goffee, The Real World of the Small Business Owner, (2nd edition.), Routledge, London 1989.

R. Scase and R. Goffee, Reluctant Managers, Allen & Unwin, London 1989; reprinted Routledge, London 1993.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, Corporate Realities: the dynamics of organisations - large and small, Routledge, London, 1995.

R. Goffee and G. Jones, The Character of a Corporation, Harper Collins, New York 1998.

R. Goffee and G. Jones, The Character of a Corporation, Second Edition, Profile Books, London, 2003

R. Goffee and G. Jones, Why Should Anyone be Led By You? Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2006.

R. Goffee and G. Jones, Leading Clever People, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, (forthcoming), 2009.

II. Edited Collection

R. Goffee and R. Scase (eds), Entrepreneurship in Europe; the social processes, Croom Helm, London 1987.

M. Peiperl, M. Arthur, T. Morris and R. Goffee (eds), Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives, Oxford University Press, 2000.

III. Monographs, Reports, etc.

R. Goffee, Kent Miners: Stability and Change in Work and Community, 1927-1976, PhD thesis, University of Kent, 1978.

R. Goffee, Coalmining and Redundancy: The Closure of the Somerset Coalfield, University of Bath, 1978.

R. Scase and R. Goffee, The Sociological analysis of small-scale capital accumulation and business ideologies, Economic and Social Research Council Report, 1982.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Female proprietors and the role of women in small-scale capital accumulation', Euromed Working Paper No 34, University of Amsterdam, 1983.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, Small business proprietorship and socio-economic change in Europe, British Council Report on International Symposium, London Business School, 1985.

R. Scase and R. Goffee, The impact of organisational restructuring and technological change on managerial careers, Economic and Social Research Council Report, 1987.

R. Goffee, A review of professional and managerial skills, Corporation of London/London Business School, 1994.

I. Flynn, N. Nicholson and R. Goffee, Diagnosing organisational structure, systems and culture, National Audit Office, 1994.

R. Goffee and R. Trevelyan, Innovation Cultures Report, Marketing Council/London Business School, 1998.

IV. Journal Articles

R. Goffee, `The Butty System and the Kent Coalfield', Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, No 34, 1977.

R. Goffee, `Incorporation and Conflict', Sociological Review, Vol. 29, August 1981.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Traditional Petty Bourgeois Attitudes: The Case of the Self-Employed Craftsman', Sociological Review, November 1981.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Female entrepreneurs: some preliminary research findings', Service Industries Review, Vol. 2, 1982.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Class Entrepreneurship and in the service sector: towards a conceptual classification', Service Industries Journal, Vol. 3, No 2, 1983.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Business ownership and women's subordination', Sociological Review, Vol. 31, November 1983.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Proprietorial control in family firms: some function of quasi-organic management systems', Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 22, No 1, 1985.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Are the rewards worth the effort? Changing managerial values in the 1980s', Personnel Review, Vol. 15, No 4, 1986.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, 'Women in Management: towards a research agenda'; International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 1. No.1, 1990.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, 'Corporate efficiency and the changing work attitudes of British Managers', Business Studies, Vol. 3, 1990.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, 'Proprietorial control in family firms: some functions of "quasi-organic" management systems', Family Business Review, Vol. IV, No 3, 1991.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, 'Organisational change and the corporate career', Human Relations, Vol.45 No.4, 1992.

R. Goffee, G. Jones and K. Truss, 'Career paths in traditional women jobs', Women in Management Review, Vol. 7, No.5, 1992.

R Goffee, `Women in management' an empirical exploration of ethical issues', Business Ethics: A European Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1993.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Developing managers for Europe: a re-examination of cross-cultural differences', European Management Journal, Vol.13, No.3, 1995.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, Secretarial Occupations and Gender Stereotyping: A Study of Secretarial Work in Europe, Human Relations, Vol.48, No.11, 1995.

R. Goffee, `Understanding family businesses: issues for further research', under review, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Vol.2, No.1, 1996.

R. Goffee, `Managerial capability in the professional firm - assessing competencies in the City', Journal of Management Development, Vol.15, No.6, 1996.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `What holds the modern corporation together?' Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

R. Goffee, `Innovation and Creativity in Business', RSA Journal, April 2000

R. Goffee and G. Jones, `Why should anyone be led by you?' Harvard Business Review, September/October 2000

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Followership: It's Personal Too', Harvard Business Review, December 2001

J. Anderson and R. Goffee, 'From Wood Panels to Mobile Phones: Strategic Diversification at Sonae Group', Business Strategy Review, 2002

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Leadership in the Board Room', Ivey Business Journal, Sept/Oct 2005

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Managing Authenticity. The paradox of great leadership.' Harvard Business Review, December 2005

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Rhythm Kings: Leader in Context', Business Strategy Review, Spring 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'The Price and Prize of Leadership', Leader to Leader, No 42, Fall 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Leading Clever People', Harvard Business Review, March 2007

V. Contributions to Edited Collections

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Fraternalism and Paternalism as Employer Strategies in Small Firms', in D. Robbins and G. Day (eds), Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market, Gower Press, 1982.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Home Life in a Small Business', in M. Evans (ed), The Woman Question, Fontana, 1982.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Small businesses: family firms and management' in C. Clegg, N. Kemp and K. Legge (eds.), Case Studies in Organisational Behaviour, Harper and Row, London, 1985.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Class analysis and the entrepreneurial middle class', in J. Curran and J. Stanworth (eds), The Survival of the Small Firm, Gower Press, 1986.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Women, Business start-up and economic recession', in R. Donckels and J.N. Meijer (eds) Women in small business: focus on Europe, Van Gorcum, 1986.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Patterns of business proprietorship among women in Britain' in R. Goffee and R. Scase (eds), Entrepreneurship in Europe: the social processes, Croom Helm, London, 1987.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Introduction' in R. Goffee and R. Scase (eds), Entrepreneurship in Europe: the social processes, Croom Helm, London, 1987.

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Tackling subordination during economic decline; a pattern of business proprietorship among women', in D. Rose (ed), Social stratification and economic decline, Hutchinson, London, 1988.

R. Goffee and N. Nicholson, `Career Development in Male and Female Managers' forthcoming in Davidson and Burke (Eds) Women in Management: Current Research Issues, 1994.

R. Goffee `Family Firms', `Founders' and `Small Business' in N. Nicholson (ed.) Dictionary of Organisational Behaviour, Blackwell, Oxford, 1995.

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'What holds the modern company together?' in S. Kerr (ed.) Ultimate Rewards, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1997.

R. Goffee and J.Hunt, 'The End of Management?' in Mastering Management, FT/Pitman, London 1997.

R. Goffee, 'Cultural Diversity' in Mastering Management, FT/Pitman, London 1997.

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Organisational Culture and International Human Resource Management' in B. Morton and P. Joynt (eds.) The Global Human Resource Manager - Creating the Seamless Organisation, IPD, London, 2000.

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Innovation Cultures', in Creativity Works, Profile Books, 2000.

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Career, Community and Social Architecture: An Exploration of Concepts' in M. Peiperl et al (eds.), Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives, Oxford University Press, 2001

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Organizational Culture: a sociological perspective', in Cooper, Cartwright and Earley (eds.), The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2001

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?' in What Makes a Leader? , Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, 2001

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Followership - It's Personal Too', in Breakthrough Leadership, Harvard Business School Press, 2001

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Organisational Culture' in S. Chowdhury (ed.), Organisation 21st Century, F T/Prentice Hall, New York, 2003

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'The Mantle of Authority' in S. Crainer and D. Dearlove (eds.), FT Handbook of Management (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2005

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Leading in the Knowledge Economy' in R. Galavan, C. Markides and J. Murrary (eds.), Strategy, Innovation and Change: Management Challenges OUP, 2008

VI. Other Publications

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `The small businessman as employer', Social Science Research Council Newsletter, No 49, June 1983;

R. Goffee, `When the pit closes', New Society, 20 April 1978;

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `The home life of the Small Businessman', New Society, 30 October 1980;

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Why some women decide to become their own boss', New Society, 9 September 1982;

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Why managers turn entrepreneur', Management Today, August 1986;

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Women in management - where now?', London Business School Journal, Vol. 10, No 2, 1986;

R. Goffee and R. Scase, `Women managers: room at the top', Management Today, March 1987;

R Goffee, 'Company Satisfaction', BT Talking Business, May/June 2001.

R Goffee, 'Send out the right signals', People Management, October 2002

R. Goffee and J. Anderson, 'An example of strategic diversification', Gestion, Vol. 7 September/October 2002

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Tough Empathy', Total Business, Feb - Mar 2006 also published in Viewpoint, MBA Business 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'The Lizard Kings', People Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, 26 Jan 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Lead Your Way', Management Today, Feb 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Relational Leadership', Training, Technology and Human Resources, Mar - Apr 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Authentic Leadership', CEO Magazine, Vol.1 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Turn on, Tune in, and Sense the Way Ahead', Financial Times: Mastering Uncertainty, 24 Mar 2006

R. Goffee, 'Feedback Helps Boards to Focus on Their Roles', Financial Times: Mastering Corporate Governance, 10 June 2005

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Follow the Leader', Coaching at Work, Vol. 1, No. 3, Mar - Apr 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Facing up to reality', In View, Issue 9, March 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Be Yourself - More - With Skill', European CEO, Mar - Apr 2006, also published in Organisational & People, Vol.13, No. 2, May 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'The 4 Strange Behaviour Traits of Exceptional Leaders', Business Now, Issue 282, 16 June 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'The Art of Followership', European Business Forum, Issue 25, Summer 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Tips for New Leaders', Journal of Accountancy, October 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Leadership: This Time It's Personal', People Management, CIPD Conference Special Issue, 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'Is Leadership Worth It?', People Management, October 2006

R. Goffee and G. Jones, 'The Route to Authentic Leadership', Training Journal, November 2006

Numerous contributions to The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Independent.