Attentional Sovereignty: Reclaiming Your Attention
Attention shapes how you experience your life. Attention determines what you notice, what stays with you and what passes unseen. As we discovered in Article 1, much of it is claimed before you choose: by notifications, other people’s requests, unresolved...
The True Cost of the Attention Economy
In 1991, the World Wide Web became publicly available. In the decades since, the accelerating pace of digital progress has transformed how we live, work and relate. Now, in 2026, we’re checking our email before we check on our kids,...
The Power of Curiosity: Keeping Things Interesting in the (Hybrid) Workplace
“Because a stimulated intellect is a sine qua non to carry out challenging tasks, managers must consider establishing the right conditions in the workplace that encourage and foster vigorous social exchanges among the employees in their pursuits of intellectual curiosity.” ...
Leading Under Pressure to Avoid Threat Rigidity
“Every leader is at a different level for their window of tolerance for things like change, pressure, stress, complexity and uncertainty… When they get thrown outside their window of tolerance, that’s when their executive functioning goes out the window. And...
Change Environments: Immunity to Change and New Years Resolutions
Did you know that up to 50% of New Years Resolutions fail? Change is hard. And yet our lives are filled with change. Even if we try our best to keep things the same, the inevitable march of aging, relationship...
Tension at the Top: Status and Leadership
If there’s one thing that often derails a successful leadership career, it’s the siren call of status. At a certain level of career advancement, people stop being motivated as much by money. Regardless of the salary they reach though, they...
Bridging Polarities – The Ginsburg-Scalia Effect
Despite our best intentions, we won’t get along with all of our work colleagues all the time. Differences in values, beliefs, objectives, priorities, and goals are inevitable in the workplace (and in life). And that’s ok. Dissent can be a...
Making Decisions in the Age of AI – why we can’t outsource all our critical thinking
All the technology humans have previously created can be classed as tools that have been predictable, explainable, and, most importantly, under our control. But now, for the first time in our history, this is no longer the case. Popularised by...
Supercharging Creativity
The Role of the Unconscious Eureka! We’ve all heard the story of the magic moment when an idea comes to someone in a shower. A problem that has been playing on your mind all week suddenly finds its solution at...
Amping your Somatic Intelligence
By NOT taking the emotion out of it To remain relevant, competitive, and buoyant, organisations need to change the frequency of their actions into increasingly shorter cycles. This perpetual change demands new processes, systems and behaviours that can be challenging for...
