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Why most Leadership Development fails – and what we need to do about it The exams season has just finished – and here in the UK it has proved particularly controversial.  The Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, says that he would like to see a return to an emphasis on exams.  Those against the exams system […] ...

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 […] ...