Tag: leadership
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves: How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Lives and Leadership
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Your brain is a prediction machine You don’t simply see the world as it is. What you perceive is shaped partly by what your brain expects, notices and interprets. Every day you make thousands of quick judgements. Is this person trustworthy? Is this idea any good? Is that short email…
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Open Space Culture: The Architecture of Distraction Sold as Collaboration
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Open space culture arrived in offices with the confidence of a solved problem. Knock down the walls, the thinking went, and ideas would move as freely between people as sound moves through a room. Three decades on, the psychology and the data tell a considerably less flattering story about what…
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The Recovery Paradox: Why Rest Stops Working When You Need It Most
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You take the day off. You sleep in, switch off your phone, tell yourself this is the reset you needed. Monday arrives and you feel exactly the same, sometimes worse. You start to wonder whether something is wrong with how you rest, or whether you are simply not trying hard…
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The Role of Self-Regulation in Relationships and Leadership
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Self-regulation rarely gets credited as a relationship skill. It tends to get filed under willpower, discipline, or something reserved for diet and exercise. That is a narrow reading of a wide construct, and it costs people real insight into why some relationships stabilise under pressure while others fracture at the…
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Leadership vs Management: The Difference Is Not What You Think
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Good Leaders Do Not Always Lead Most articles on leadership vs management treat it as a matter of vocabulary. Managers apparently do boring things with spreadsheets, while leaders do exciting things with vision. It is a neat distinction. It is also far too simple. Research suggests the difference has less…