Mark Withers - Mightywaters

Secrets to success?

n a 3-minute TED talk, analyst Richard St John distils 500 interviews with successful people into what he calls ‘8 secrets of success’. Click here to listen. ...

Leadership

The importance of asking “why?”

Simon Sinek encouraged us to Start With Why and, more recently is offering to help us Find Our Why. The subtext of each of these ...

Leadership, Organisational Change, Organisational Design

What is the most important skill for the future?

I recently attended a CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) event this autumn. CIM had surveyed over 500 leading professionals in the City and had asked ...

Millennials@Work

An unusual German New Year’s tradition

If you click on this link you will watch the most frequently repeated TV program of all time. It is a 1963 English comedy sketch ...

Unconscious Bias

Do you value your snowflakes?

No, this is not a pejorative use of ‘snowflake’ to take a poke at the perceived fragility of younger people. Take a look at this ...

Leadership, Millennials@Work, Unconscious Bias

Organisational Design: Illusion Slaying

The great writer, poet and philosopher Arthur Koestler once maintained that nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. We disagree. As OD ...

Organisational Design

Unpacking Deloitte’s 2018 Millennials Survey

I recently published “Millennials@Work”, a Mightywaters white paper which reviews key research on Millennials in the workplace and identifies 3 key themes that cast a ...

Millennials@Work

Unlocking the X Factor to deliver organisational change

The 2015 CIPD Learning and Development Survey[i] found that a top priority for leadership development was to equip leaders to drive culture change in organisations. ...

Organisational Change

The Knowing – Doing Gap in Diversity and Inclusion

The book ‘The Knowing - Doing Gap’, written by Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton[1], is one of the great classics in management literature. ...

Inclusion and Diversity

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Author: Mark Withers