by Damian Hamill
00:00 - 30th April 2012
I recently read an article which reported a call by Professor David Lewis of Middlesex University, one of the UK’s leading employment law experts, for companies to actively reward and protect whistle-blowers within their organisation. Read on to find out how we at Watt Works can contribute to this...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 15th February 2012
Years ago I read a book by one of the major developers of Solution-focused Therapy, Bill O’Hanlon. Bill referred to a fantasy novel, The Wizard of Earthsea, as a wonderful metaphor for personal change, growth, healing and relating to aspects of ourselves. I have recommended the book to...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 9th February 2012
One of the factors that typified the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, was his laid back presentation style. He would stand up in front of the world and introduce a revolutionary product as if he was showing it to a group of intimate friends and associates. Yet there are other...
by Paul Russell
10:30 - 23rd January 2012
Over the last few days I have been watching the Pakistan v England test match in Dubai. England, the current number 1 ranked team in the world, were comprehensively beaten by 10 wickets inside 3 days! Let me give you some insights from the perspective of an experienced sport...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 5th January 2012
Today I read a post from an intelligent, accomplished and resourceful person lamenting the fact that if she wanted to get another two hours work done a day she would not be able to continue getting out of bed at 7:30am. Let’s set aside the fact that half past...
by Paul Russell
10:30 - 3rd January 2012
I was watching the semi-finals of the Darts PDC World Championships last night and witnessed one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. In this ‘First to 6 Sets is the Winner’ match, James Wade was 5 - 1 up against reigning champion, Adrian Lewis. Lewis was written off...
by Damian Hamill
12:35 - 30th December 2011
So, the New Year is almost upon us and many of you may be thinking of the changes you want to see happen in 2012 and framing those as New Year’s Resolutions. Let me give you a few pointers and I’ll be brief.
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 27th December 2011
Over the Festive Season some of you may have used the services of the personalised greeting card company, Moonpig. Let me do a little bit of name-dropping here and also show you how to extract opportunity from adversity.
by Damian Hamill
11:26 - 16th December 2011
This morning’s Independent newspaper reports the return to work of Lloyd’s Chief Executive, Antonio Horta-Osorio, after a period of sick leave caused by insomnia. In this blog I would like to bang on again about the foolishness, nay the absolute insanity, of believing that we can compromise on sleep...
by Paul Russell
12:00 - 15th December 2011
It must be nearly Christmas because I watched The Great Escape at the weekend. The Great Escape is one of my all time favourite films and I enjoy it now as much as when I first watched Steve McQueen on his motor bike trying to jump the barbed wire fence...