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Conspiracy theories and scary stories are more likely to circulate among teams who feel stressed and lacking in energy Nearly 30 percent of Americans believe that Covid-19 was created by humans in a laboratory and almost a quarter of those think that humans created it intentionally, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center […] ...

Everyone has been subjected to meaningless verbiage and incomprehensible acronyms – but there’s a reason why some people use them Do you know your ARU from your SIO?  What is a UCO or a CHIS, for that matter?  Have you ever been accused of “cuckooing” or ignoring an Osman warning? OK, I’ll stop now.  If […] ...

Does familiarity breed contempt? No, in fact it’s the opposite, according to “mere-exposure effect” and this psychological phenomenon has important lessons for leaders We were working with a large infrastructure company who were digitalising their network. One senior leader mentioned that he was surprised that some of the most vehement reactions to change came about […] ...

Take a listen to Thresholds latest podcast “The Storytelling Brain” part of their  “How to work with Humans” series. Simon Brooke, author, writer and journalist shares his insights on how you can take the principles of storytelling to create a compelling business message. ...

Zombie theories are those ideas that are discredited again and again and yet refuse to die. Learning styles has been the chief Zombie – a new study suggests that it still roams the Earth. It’s a rainy March afternoon in Hydesville, New York and two sisters, Katie and Maggie Fox, bored and mischievous, convince a […] ...

We might recoil from people with unappealing traits in real life – but in fiction we love them and want to be associated with them. What does the latest research tell us about the way in which we use stories to make sense of the world and understand other people? Everyone loves a good villain. […] ...