I was delighted to be asked to join in a three day intensive “hothouse” with local computing firm Singularity.

A “hothouse” is a competitive team thinking excersize. There was two teams of ten people.  I was on team Mongoose. Sometimes it felt like being in an episode of the apprentice…except an extremly focused and intense episode. We had all the team ups and downs of a team on that show. On the third and final day after losing the first two days to Team Octopus (who seems to have really come together very well) it looked as if we were heading straight for a train crash.

Then… at about lunchtime (with a 3.00pm deadline) it clicked!

Its fun when you see that sort of thing happen on TV, but its really exciting to be part of it actually happening.

Here we are gathered in the board room just before the results were announced. We knew we had done well and maybe just pulled it from the fire.

Team Mongoose: Mark Power, Ciaran Mullan, Audrey Worthington, Anthony Hutton, Charles Gamble, Walter DeGroof, Karen McGready, Olivia Bush, Brendan McNabb, Peter Whibley.