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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 Zooms mean we are ‘Zoomeranging’; we find…
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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. I don’t know about you, but if…
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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 at our house. During these two decades,…
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Beat the Bug!
Responding to Covid-19 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 colleagues. We are also beginning…
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Distributed Leadership
“The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” John Maynard Keynes Imagine this… A teenager lies unconscious in the sand dunes of a North Devon…
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Is your organisation playing ‘Whac-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 in their organisation. ‘There’s a lack of…
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What does it take to shift our culture?
‘Culture is what happens when the CEO isn’t in the room’ John Collinson, CEO Stripe If Peter Drucker’s adage that culture eats strategy for breakfast is right, why is it that we…
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Reimagining leadership
‘Leadership is an activity in pursuit of something new and better … It’s a group sport, not an individual heroic activity’. Ed Schein (MIT Professor Emeritus ) How do you define leadership?…
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How well do you contain the anxiety of others?
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”…………… On the importance of containing anxiety We live in unprecedented times or Megachange as Darrel West calls it. Megachange…
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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 of the conversations we have will determine how well…
