The time of the cohort has arrived
Readers of this blog will already be familiar with the concept of the Leadership Cliff: the fact that more leaders are retiring and there are simply not enough potential replacements. Our approach has been to look at the sources of new leaders and how to engage and...
Stereotypes and Authentic Leadership
Typical woman! Typical man! Life would be too complex if we didn’t use stereotypes to slip everyone into pigeonholes. We have so much data coming at us all the time that we simplify through classification, without even knowing what we are doing. Much of the time...
What’s love got to do with Leadership?
Beset by hearts and flowers in the run up to the commercialised day of love, we at White Water Group started to consider what love had to do with leadership. The work of a leader can sometimes make them feel particularly unloved, and loneliness is something we see in...
What’s love got to do with Leadership?
Beset by hearts and flowers in the run up to the commercialised day of love, we at White Water Group started to consider what love had to do with leadership. The work of a leader can sometimes make them feel particularly unloved, and loneliness is something we see in...
What New Year Resolutions teach us about Leadership
New Year Resolutions – Are we there yet? So it is the 13th day of the year (or perhaps the 14th if you pick this up on Monday) and about 50% of us will have made formal New Year Resolutions. Depending on which study you read, 60-90% will fail within six months, with...
What New Year Resolutions teach us about Leadership
New Year Resolutions – Are we there yet? So it is the 13th day of the year (or perhaps the 14th if you pick this up on Monday) and about 50% of us will have made formal New Year Resolutions. Depending on which study you read, 60-90% will fail within six months, with...The wrong kind of End Of The World
If you are reading this, it means that the world has not ended, yet. Either the prediction was wrong, or it is for December 21st. We think that both are wrong and NASA supports us… Of course, some of you may think that the end of the word is preferable to Christmas...The wrong kind of End Of The World
If you are reading this, it means that the world has not ended, yet. Either the prediction was wrong, or it is for December 21st. We think that both are wrong and NASA supports us… Of course, some of you may think that the end of the word is preferable to Christmas...Corporate Tax Dodging: Visible Leadership needed
Am I the only one wondering about the ‘silly season’ flavour to the story about Starbucks & friends not paying their fair share of corporation tax? Obviously said corporations are not helping themselves by being paralysed by PR fear and looking greedy...
OBAMA – The All-Weather Leader
Congratulations to Obama on winning his second term at the White House last week. So how did he manage to ride the disappointment from ‘hope’ to dealing with the deepest economic crisis in living memory? How did he keep leading through bad times? And are leaders born...