Articles
Governance magazine
From 2007 to January 2014 Martin Farrell wrote Under the BoardTalk for Governance magazine. This regular column looked in a light-hearted, but nevertheless serious way, at some of the more subtle issues facing trustee boards in the UK and from 2013 internationally.
- January 2014 – Transitions large and small
- November 2013 – Shine a light ... into the vacuum
- September 2013 – We all need some
- July 2013 – Vive (avec) la difference
- May 2013 – Spot the difference?
- March 2013 – An offer you can refuse
- January 2013 – All ready to go...
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- November 2012 – Be not afeared, of the CC words
- Trustees’ right to information whenever they want it
- September 2102 – Do you hear that voice – of the thief of time?
- July 2012 – A happy veneer
- May 2012 – Enough’s enough – how much information do trustees really need?
- March 2012 – Founder syndrome medicine – readily available and quite tasty too
- January 2012 – Give us the ... money (pocket science not rocket science)
- November 2011 – Kicking the rabbit habit (don’t mention the crisis)
- September 2011 – Boldly pause and go
- July 2011 – Trustees go to the seaside
- May 2011 – We’re in hot water – facing demons out, in, and all around
- March 2011 – Banking on relationships
- January 2011 – I wouldn’t be starting from here if I were you...
- November 2010 – No mud, no lotus
- September 2010 – Mind the Gap
- July 2010 – Time to give and take
- May 2010 – The pleasures of (pressing) the flesh
- March 2010 – Now you see it, now you don’t. (See?)
- January 2010 – Breathe in the dust
- November 2009 – Leading when you’re not there
- September 2009 – Reading the river (feeling it in your waters)
- July 2009 – Glittering gems in a conference bubble
- May 2009 – Prestige and high standing, a thoroughly modern concept
- Removing a trustee
- March 2009 – Does your authority figure come out to play?
- January 2009 – You don’t have to be mad
Third Sector magazine (UK)
Our habits influence how effectively we can bring positive change to the not-for-profit sector. Now is the time to reflect on individual and organisational habits and make a decision to change those that serve neither us nor our beneficiaries. With this series of articles in the UK’s Third Sector magazine, I hope to bring readers face to face with their demons. It will be scary, unsettling and difficult. You will wish you hadn’t started and had just carried on as normal...
- 13 May 2015 – If you have authority, it can pay to be tough for the good of all
- 16 April 2015 – Consider where you stand on your charity board’s ego spectrum
- 26 February 2015 – Assert civil society by looking a terrorist squarely in the eye
- 22 January 2015 – It’s inevitable that founders flounder instead of letting go
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- 18 December 2014 – Queasy about being patronised? Turn that energy around
- 20 November 2014 – If you’ve taken the trouble to become a trustee ... show up
- 5 November 2014 – Is your time sapped by endless emails? Try a new strategy
- 13 October 2014 – Putting off a difficult conversation stores up trouble for later
- 22 September 2014 – Let’s turn meetings from painful drain to productive gain
- 18 August 2014 – Join me in my quiet campaign for more polite networking
- 22 July 2014 – We are in crisis, which can lead to change – so let’s not waste it
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