Mark Withers - Mightywaters

Reimagining leadership

How do you define leadership? It’s a tough question. Despite the plethora of publications, programmes and podcasts we have no single narrative to define leadership. Indeed, ...

Summer School

How well do you contain the anxiety of others?

We live in unprecedented times or Megachange as Darrel West calls it. Megachange points to a great inflection point in human history - where the ...

Summer School

Making your conversations count

In her book, Conversational Intelligence Judith Glaser proposes that conversational competence is critical to priming the brain for trust, partnership and mutual success. The quality ...

Summer School

Are you a trust builder?

In organisations, the importance of trust is multi-faceted. Recent World Economic Forum research points to CEO concerns that falling trust in their organisations will hinder ...

Summer School

Collaboration – a game of snakes and ladders?

One of the strangest pieces of research we have come across was published in the Harvard Business Review: ‘Adults behave better when Teddy bears are ...

Leadership

Unleash your leader – A Book Review

Don’t be put off by the somewhat adolescent title of this gem of a book. Unleash your leader contains some essential truths every leader needs ...

Leadership

Is true grit what it’s all about?

Will “getting gritty” be one of your New Years’ resolutions? It might seem like a strange suggestion, but I’d like to explain why it’s mine.   ...

Millennials@Work

Being fearless

This is the headline statement of an excellent new book called The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson a Professor at Harvard Business School. ...

Leadership, Unconscious Bias

How do you bring insight?

I often hear from organisational leaders that we need to move from providing information to discovering insights. It’s a seductive thought. We have information overload, ...