David Sims

Background

David started his working life 200 yards from Cass in what was then Britannic House, headquarters of BP, working on simulation and data retrieval projects.  He became fascinated by the way in which political factors dominated the technical factors with which these projects purported to deal.  He followed this interest with an MA in Organization Studies at Leeds, and a PhD at Bath on problem construction in teams.  For the next 20 years at Bath he developed research and teaching interests on the organizational implications of problem construction, managing complex situations, cognitive mapping, mental rehearsal, management learning and finally agenda reformation as Research Officer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer.  He was Editor for five years of Management Learning, currently the most highly cited of all non-American management journals.  He had one year's remission from Bath for good behaviour, as Senior Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore.  He has been a consultant in organizations in the oil, power, computer, publishing, airline, hotel and engineering industries, as well as to public sector organizations in the UK and abroad.  He has worked with organizations of all different sizes, and has been surprised by the amount they have in common.  He moved to Brunel University in 1995 as Professor of Management, and became founding Head of School of Business and Management.  Following his last ESRC funded research project on agenda shaping in organizations and his five years as a manager, his research interests have focused clearly on management as story telling, on understanding the development and learning of managers as storytellers, and on developing the implications of this for leadership in organizations.

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