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Mr Bates and Board Effectiveness

The ITV drama Mr Bates v The Post Office has been a powerful catalyst in drawing attention to a gargantuan miscarriage of justice. It was heart-wrenching stuff, hitting hard because real people are involved telling real stories. It certainly left me thinking why on earth wasn’t this injustice picked up ...

Governance, Leadership, Organisational Change

Turning Potential into World Beating Success

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Team GB were the paupers of the Olympic world. Team GB had won a solitary gold medal and 15 ...

Leadership

Building Resilience Series: Part 2

We have always been fascinated by people’s stories. One of the exercises we often run with teams is to ask each person to tell their ...

Leadership

Building Resilience Series: Part 1

Over the past year or so we have had the privilege of working with a number of sporting organisations that enable our Olympians and Paralympians ...

Leadership

How are you focusing your time?

Over the past few weeks, the word ‘Zoom’ has slipped effortlessly into our vocabulary. We are now ‘on a Zoom’; been ‘invited to Zoom’; multiple ...

Leadership, Organisational Change

Where are you investing your energy?

Where we invest our energy is always something we need to pay attention to. More so in this current time of great uncertainty and disruption. ...

Leadership

Too Close for Comfort?

We have been running Mightywaters as a husband and wife team for nearly 22 years now. For most of this time, our office has been ...

Organisational Change

Beat the Bug!

It looks like we are entering a season of huge uncertainty. There is increasing anxiety concerning how Covid-19 will impact us, our families, friends, neighbours and ...

Leadership

Distributed Leadership

Imagine this… A teenager lies unconscious in the sand dunes of a North Devon Beach. He is barely breathing and he is cold to touch with ...

Summer School

Is your organisation playing ‘Whack-a-Mole’ decision making?

At a recent meeting we attended, participants talked about the organisational challenges they were facing. One person pointed to a strategic paralysis at Executive level ...

Summer School