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Corporate MKUltra: Why Your Culture Change is Really Just Mind Control

Recently, I revisited Gert Hofstede's influential work on culture, particularly his definition of culture as "the collective programming of the mind…

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August 2025

The Efficiency Trap: Why Everything Your MBA Taught You About Efficiency Is Killing Innovation

In the interest of providing multiple means of engaging with this blog, below is the podcast style conversation, using our AI friends Johnny and Joanne…

Aug 26 • 

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The Three-Body Problem: Why Your Best People Interventions Keep Failing

Sarah was the perfect candidate.

Aug 12 • 

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July 2025

The German Word That Explains Why Your Culture Change Programme Failed

And how to approach cultural change using the latest psychological research

Jul 7 • 

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May 2025

The New Rules of Automation: 5 New Roles Generated by GenAI

For decades, we've had a comfortable understanding of which jobs were safe from automation. Like a well-worn map, we could plot the territories where…

May 23 • 

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Butterflies, Jazz Bands, and Golf Balls: Why the Traditional HR Measurement Is Missing the Point

How do we better measure human behaviour in HR & Psychology?

May 2 • 

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April 2025

Beyond the Control Room in your Head

What Pixar's 'Inside Out' Gets Wrong About How We Think and Lead

Apr 9 • 

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March 2025

Are we stretching the truth on Stretch Goals?

An evidence-informed discussion on goal setting and performance management for HR, Managers and Leaders

Mar 28 • 

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Active Inference at Work: The Science Behind Professional Intuition

Understanding the Embodied Workplace Hunch. Distinguishing the Science of Professional Intuition from Biases

Mar 10 • 

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February 2025

Breaking the Experience Myth: How Real Expertise Develops at Work

In the interest of providing multiple means of engaging with this blog, below is the podcast style conversation, using our AI friends Johnny and Joanne…

Feb 22 • 

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January 2025

Beyond Debate: A Leader's Guide to Dialogic Facilitation and Transformative Conversations

Master the art of dialogic facilitation through understanding the Four Quadrants framework, giving you practical tools to transform group discussions…

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MBTI's Double Truth: Valid Poles, Forced Choices

When Personality Assessment Tools Both Help and Hinder: A Critical Analysis

Jan 12 • 

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