When Expectations and Reality Differ

Meeting the expectations of our clients and service users is so important, but what happens when you know you can’t, and have to manage their expectations to a new reality? I write this on a Sunday afternoon flight returning from a weeks holiday in Lanzarote. We...

Is Disney Losing Its Way?

I write this on a plane on the way home from a few days in Disneyland Paris with the kids. I must say that after several previous trips and a few Florida Disney holidays, I have always been someone that has held up Disney as one of the best examples of providing a...

Will You Take New Opportunities?

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending my daughter’s graduation ceremony, as she prepares to begin her new career as a teacher in September. It was great to see so many young people, strutting across the stage, back straight, chest out and with an element of...

Is Your Charity’s Governance More FIFA or PQASSO?

  Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about governance and, in particular, the governance that I see in the charities and other organisations that I deal with, and that I read about. Governance is so important, and the success and future of your...