Why a book about Happiness?
People tend to think happiness is a big and complicated topic. In fact, science shows that it is often the seemingly little things that make a huge difference to people’s well-being and sense of contentment. So, lots of money and possessions don’t actually help much....
100 years on and still no equality
100 years ago this month, leading suffragette Emily Wilding Davis ran out in front of the King’s Horse, at the Epsom Derby as a protest at women’s lack of the vote in the UK. She died 4 days later. And while things have moved on for women – fortunately they got the...
Passing the baton
Passing the baton: doughnuts and delegation The last couple of weeks have illustrated three different styles of passing the baton: first Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated. Her son’s turn, as expected. Then Queen Elizabeth II asked her own son to represent...
But how do you really feel?
It has been a week of strongly held, fiercely expressed and often diametrically opposed emotions. Long repressed fury and grudges have kept pace with eulogies. Whatever your intellectual or political stance one thing has been clear. People have an enormous capacity...
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...
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...
Going down in the world?
Waiting for the lift on the 30th floor, I met a middle aged man. We got chatting. By the time we reached ground level, he had told me that he had spent his life ensuring that he had enough now in the way of riches. Rather than just amassing more wealth, he felt he...
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...