Journal
A welcoming and warmly lit workshop for that most brilliantly baffling of machines: the human dynamic. Dispatches from the front lines of psychology, and from journeys along the liminal edge.
Living on the Edge
My invitation was to participate in an organisational visioning event as an ‘embedded psychological observer’. My invitation had been courtesy of the organisation's Group Human Resources Director, following a…
ReadBen Hope
To walk up into the dusk is an inversion of the usual order of things. I leave the road late, when others are descending, their faces ruddy with the day’s work. The air by the roadside is thick with the scent…
ReadBe your Self
From a psychological perspective, zombies in this context don't signify something to be feared, but rather a latent aspect of the self that has been suppressed by the pressures of corporate conformity. The…
WatchWorkplace Fear Survey
W. Edwards Deming, the father of modern quality management, famously stated that fear in an organization is the single greatest inhibitor of improvement. This profound insight leads to a critical question for…
WatchExcellent Innovation in Business Psychology
In the first of The BTN's series of videos with the Association of Business Psychology winners, Ian McLaren Wallace discusses his multi-award winning method of 'Archegyral Mapping: Transforming a Cultural…
WatchAberlemno Stones
The gloaming comes late to Angus in high summer, a slow seeping of indigo into the wide sky above Strathmore. I walked the verge of the B-road, the air still holding the day’s warmth, the drone of the last…
ReadWill Leaders be Replaced by Artificial Intelligences?
Latest research reveals how brain patterns influence high-stakes leadership decisions and what this means for executive development programs.
WatchIt's Complexicated
In 2018, an employee at the airline Condor Airways, was tasked with buying some plastic cups, plastic cups to contain in-flight hot beverages for the airline’s pilots. It might appear as if this is a fairly…
ReadThe Frandy Tree
Leadership is changing from a static set of prescriptive corporate competencies to a dynamic framework of adaptive learning processes. The change is driven by a shift in ownership. Once, leadership was owned…
ReadAngel of the North
To come to the Angel is to feel the land rise. You don’t so much arrive as ascend towards it. On this particular afternoon, a long heat had settled over the Tyne valley, bleaching the sky to a pale, ceramic…
ReadAddiewell Uluru
To walk towards the Five Sisters on a long summer’s afternoon is to feel the landscape rearranging itself around you. They are not mountains, not in the geological sense. They are bings: vast, man-made mounds…
ReadThe Mcnagoogle Fallacy
On the 29th February 1968, the man controlling the world’s most powerful military power broke down in tears. With hesitant words and a breaking voice, Robert Strange McNamara, (that was his actual middle name…
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