Research & Articles
Brain Capital
Your organisation has a number for every kind of capital it holds. Financial capital. Physical capital. Digital capital. It almost certainly has no number for
Subtraction Neglect
You just added a step to fix that broken process, didn’t you. That’s autopilot, and it’s almost always the wrong move. Behavioural scientists call it
Wrong stage; why safety interventions target the wrong moment (follow-on, crowd-sourced framing)
When I posted last week about new research showing the brain categorises a room as safe or not safe before you are consciously aware of
The AI Empathy Choice Paradox
An AI chatbot’s response to someone in distress was rated as more compassionate than a message written by a human professional. Given a genuine choice
Categorisation,Prediction and Social Safety (Barrett & Miller, 2026)
In my work I often hear leaders describe walking into a room and knowing within a second or two whether it is safe to say
The Adult Version of Childhood Experience
You’ve rehearsed exactly what you’re going to say in that hard conversation. You haven’t thought about whether they can actually hear it. Connection before content.