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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

What does it take to shift our culture?

If Peter Drucker’s adage that culture eats strategy for breakfast is right, why is it that we spend comparatively less time in being intentional about ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...