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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

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, ...

Unconscious Bias

Habitually resolving to be curious

For many of us new year = new start. Our minds turn to the list of things we plan to do, change, improve and discard ...

Unconscious Bias

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