Brain for Business
Episodes
Season 3, Episode 20: Why we need to rethink stardom, with Professor Ernest O’Boyle, Indiana University, and Dr Martin Götz, University of Zurich
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A forthcoming article by our guests today – appropriately titled “Rethinking Stardom" - argues that: Star performers are increasingly capturing th...
Series 3, Episode 19: Why leadership development is failing us, with Professor Moran Anisman-Razin, University of Limerick
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to Forbes magazine, in 2020 alone global spend on corporate training programmes, often focused on leadership development, exceeded $350 bill...
Series 3, Episode 18: Does the “beauty bias” impact leader emergence?, with Professor Stephen Courtright, Texas A&M University
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a forthcoming article now available, our guest today, Professor Stephen Courtright, along with co-authors tackle the question of the “beauty bias...
Series 3, Episode 17: Is it ok to be nosy, or should I just mind my own business? with Professor Richard Currie, Boston University
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Research has consistently found that maintaining a healthy balance between work and other areas of life often requires people to establish and maintai...
Series 3, Episode 16: How can teams become more resilient? with Professor Daniel Gucciardi, Curtin University
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adversity is inherent within most – if not all – occupational contexts in which the performance of individuals and teams is crucial for organisati...
Series 3, Episode 15: The one where we talk about humor, with Matt Nadel, St John’s University
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Humor is a phenomenon experienced by most, if not all, human beings. Throughout human history humor has played a role in communication and intera...
Series 3, Episode 14: Exploring Dark Creativity, with Dr Hansika Kapoor, Monk Prayogshala
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creativity is – for a very good reason – often seen as something positive and even joyful. Yet like many things in life there is also a flips...
Series 3, Episode 13: Why we need to ensure academic legitimacy, with Dr Raffaele Ciriello, University of Sydney
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As regular listeners will know, the Brain for Business podcast focuses primarily on research by academics and others into the brain, behavioural and o...
Series 3, Episode 12: Are female experts more credible than male experts? With Professor Hans Sievertsen, University of Bristol
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recent open access article in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization reported on results from research comparing the effect of (the sam...
Series 3, Episode 11: Why CEO curiosity matters, with Professor Patricia Klarner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the old saying that “curiosity killed the cat”… the importance of curiosity for information seeking and gathering in organisations ...
Series 3, Episode 10: Why beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies, with Professor Brooke Macnamara, Purdue University
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A 2023 opinion piece in the journal Nature Psychology challenged the prevailing perspective on success and achievement, essentially arguing that we ha...
Series 3, Episode 9: How should firms balance exploration and exploitation? with Dr Axel Zeijen, ETH Zurich
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Balancing exploration and exploitation is a fundamental strategic challenge for organizations operating in dynamic environments. Managers must decide ...
Season 3 Episode 8: Why and how does founder age perception influence funding outcomes? With Dr Michael Matthews, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recent article in the Journal of Business Venturing sought to address the question of: Why and how does founder age perception influence funding out...
Series 3, Episode 7: The importance of Learning to See with Professor Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a new book – Learning to See: Inside the world's leading art and design schools, published by MIT Press – our guest today, Professor Keith Sawy...
Series 3, Episode 6: The Creativity Choice, with Dr Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Yale University
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creative work in itself is stressful and riddled with anxiety-provoking uncertainties. It takes resilience to persist through these challenges. It tak...
Series 3, Episode 5: Are generations a useful concept? With Professor David Costanza, University of Virginia
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If all the noise in the popular media and online is anything to go by, differences between various generations including Gen Z, Gen X, Boomers and so ...
Series 3, Episode 4: What drives the adoption of innovation? With Professor Radu Dimitriu, Trinity College Dublin
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is one thing to develop an innovation and put it out into the world, but that will only get you so far. Just as important is the adoption of i...
Series 3, Episode 3: Why Individuals Commit Professional Misconduct, with Professor Will Harvey, Melbourne Business School
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In any organization sometimes things will go wrong or just not work out. While in many cases this might be due to mistakes or errors, at other t...
Series 3, Episode 2: Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Ethical AI Governance, with Professor Linda Hogan (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr Marta Lasek-Markey (ADAPT)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, whether we like it or not, AI or artificial intelligence, has become omnipresent, pervading online systems of all types. In a re...
Series 3, Episode 1: Understanding how memory really works, with Professor Gillian Murphy, University College Cork
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we con...
Series 2, Episode 49: The reality of pursuing a calling, with Professor Kirsten Robertson, Fraser Valley University
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These days everyone seems to be searching for their passion, safe in the knowledge that ‘Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to w...
Series 2, Episode 48: How does diversity impact team performance? With Dr Lukas Wallrich, Birkbeck Business School, University of London
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The question of diversity is one that we have discussed previously on the Brain for Business podcast. While the benefits of diversity are often t...
Series 2, Episode 47: How will megatrends impact our future? With Dr Claire Naughtin, Data61 and the CSIRO
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over four decades ago the American author and futurist, John Naisbitt, captured the public imagination with his book Megatrends: Ten New Directions Tr...
Series 2, Episode 46: Why authentic, ethical, and servant leadership, are not true representations of leadership behaviors, with Professor Thomas Fischer, University of Geneva
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A recent paper in the journal Leadership Quarterly explores the very nature of leadership styles and how they play out, ultimately asserting that: "th...
Series 2, Episode 45: How ideology intersects with media coverage, with Professor Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A recent article in the journal Organization Science argues that“Although prior research attributes news media coverage of firms to the alignment of...
Series 2, Episode 44: Are all innovation failures the same? With Professor Elena Freisinger, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation is an inherently risky business. When we push the boundaries of possibility and try to develop new products, processes or services, we...
Series 2, Episode 43: Why has the Internet not led to an upsurge in innovation? with Professor Lingfei Wu, University of Pittsburgh
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last number of years, the internet has facilitated much greater connectivity and interaction between people – both on a personal and profes...
Series 2, Episode 42: How "Literary Futures" can change the way we think about opportunities, with Professor Rebecca Braun, University of Galway
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In many areas of life – both personal and professional – the need to envision potential futures and establish how to get there is crucial. In...
Series 2, Episode 41: When do diversity initiatives exacerbate rather than mitigate bias and inequality? with Professor Karin Hellerstedt and Professor Timur Uman, Jönköping International Business School
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, Diversity along with Equity and Inclusion have emerged as key elements of organisational and people strategy. It is now essentia...
Series 2, Episode 40: Understanding the benefits of creative and adaptive leaders, with Dr Oana Velcu-Laitinen
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A recent paper in the Journal of Possibility Studies argues that creativity is an essential skill for effective leadership and that creative leaders c...
Series 2, Episode 39: How does CEO over-confidence impact performance? with Dr Barbara Burkhard and Professor Charlotta Sirén, Institute of Responsible Innovation, University of St.Gallen
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to decision making, overconfidence is acknowledged as one of the most common managerial decision making biases. Nonetheless, much u...
Series 2, Episode 38: How feedback can super-charge your organisation, with Professor Henning Piezunka, INSEAD
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does your organisation get the feedback it needs? In particular, does it get the feedback it needs to improve and to better meet customer or stak...
Series 2, Episode 37: The challenge and opportunity of CEO activism, with Asst Professor Moritz Appels, Rotterdam School of Management
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When people consider a new employer they might think about a number of key factors, including location, salary, opportunities for growth and advanceme...
Series 2, Episode 36: Why Grand Innovation Challenges Matter, with Associate Professor Vera Rocha, Copenhagen Business School
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes the challenges facing humanity are beyond the scope or remit of just one person or indeed one organisation. Often termed “grand chall...
Series 2, Episode 35: Better understanding the psychology of entrepreneurship, with Professor Ute Stephan, King’s Business School
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The psychology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship is a fascinating area. Let’s face it – it can sometimes seem completely bizarre that som...
Series 2, Episode 34: The destructive impact of narcissistic leaders on their organisations, with Professor Thanos Verousis, Vlerick Business School, and Professor Pietro Perotti, University of Bath
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While we have previously explored the question of narcissism and the dark triad of personality traits on the Brain for Business podcast, the question ...
Series 2, Episode 33: Understanding the impact of founder personalities on startup success, with Dr Fabian Braesemann, Oxford Internet Institute, The University of Oxford
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Big 5 Model of Personality is perhaps the most consistently reliable model of personality used in research around the world. Focusing on the ...
Series 2, Episode 32: Understanding Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation, with Robert Oerell
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In times of great turmoil and uncertainty radicalisation can emerge as a real challenge. Yet what is it that really drives radicalisation and how...
Series 2, Episode 31: Does it really matter whether we “identify” with our organisation? With Professor Chia-Huei Wu, King’s Business School
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years it has become commonplace for organisations of all types to loudly proclaim their values and purpose, and encourage their employees to...
Series 2, Episode 30: How does power impact on psychopathic behaviours and leadership outcomes? with Dr Iris Kranefeld, Cologne Institute for Management Consulting
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The question of psychopathy and psychopaths in the workplace is something that we have discussed before on the Brain for Business podcast. Yet it...
Series 2, Episode 29: How can we better understand and manage organisational scandals? With Professor Julien Jourdan, HEC Paris
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Scandals regularly sweep through organizational fields: they wreak havoc in markets, vaporize billions of dollars in firm value, bring down giant c...
Series 2, Episode 28: Free agents: How evolution gave us free will, with Professor Kevin Mitchell, Trinity College Dublin
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The question of whether we have free will does not have a yes-or-no, all-or-none answer. Instead, we have degrees of freedom – an idea that ...
Series 2, Episode 27: Why don’t people work as hard for female entrepreneurs? With Professor Olenka Kacperczyk, London Business School
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While accurate data is hard to come by, some sources claim that up 90% of starts up fail. There can be many reasons for this including but not l...
Series 2, Episode 26: How can we encourage people to eat more healthily? With Dr Sarah Snuggs, University of Reading
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally, healthy adults are consistently falling below national and international recommendations for physical activity and failing to meet gu...
Series 2, Episode 25 : Introducing a ‘Stop Doing’ Culture: How to free your organization from rigidity with Dr Adrian Klammer, University of Liechtenstein
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a 2019 article published in Business Horizons our guest today on the Brain for Business podcast, Dr Adrian Klammer, together with colleagues Thomas...
Series 2, Episode 24 - “Talking Heads: The new science of how conversation shapes our worlds", with Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like many podcasts, Brain for Business is based around a conversation – a conversation between me as host and the various guests who join us. Each a...
Series 2, Episode 23 - Banishing the Sunday Night Blues, with Professor Ilke Inceoglu, University of Exeter
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I first came across the work of today’s guest one Monday morning at around 4am as I browsed the website for The Guardian newspaper on my phone. Unl...
Series 2, Episode 22 - How can we more effectively grapple with "Blame Games"? With Asst Professor Sandra Resodihardjo, Radboud University
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes in life things go wrong… mistakes, accidents, even disasters will occur. From festivals that fail due to poor advance planning, product l...
Series 2, Episode 21 – Developing new perspectives on collective wellbeing, with Theo Edmonds, University of Colorado Denver Imaginator Academy
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A recent project in the US sought to map collective wellbeing. Supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Mapping Collective W...
Series 2, Episode 20 - How does behavior change spread through organizations? with Professor Damon Centola, University of Pennsylvania
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last few years of the Covid pandemic we all became used to the idea of contagion and, in particular, how viruses spread through communities. ...
Series 2, Episode 19 - Leveraging business podcasts to enhance organizational performance, with Professor Jake Waddingham, Texas State University
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is now almost 20 years since the first podcast was launched, and if the available statistics are anything to go by, podcasts are definitely having ...
Series 2, Episode 18 - How leaders can develop their Cultural Intelligence, with Professor Eimear Nolan, Trinity Business School
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that to a certain extent cultures differ between countries. When we travel or work with people from different backgrounds we often gain u...
Series 2, Episode 17 - How can we better understand the relationship between creativity, innovation and emotion, with Dr Zorana Ivčević Pringle, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While often seen as discrete and distinct phenomena, could it be that creativity and innovation are just variations on the same theme? Absolutely yes,...
Series 2, Episode 16 - How Social Media Supercharges Conspiracy Theories, with Professor Henrich Greve, INSEAD
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we like it or not (or recognise it or not!) in recent years we have all been subjected to various conspiracy theories. Whether it is claims t...
Series 2, Episode 15 - How can new managers develop a “leadership mindset”?, with Professor Bret Crane, Utah State University
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The transition from individual contributor to manager is never easy. New managers need to take responsibility not just for their own performance, but...
Series 2, Episode 14 - Exploring the science of possibilities, with Professor Vlad Glaveanu, Dublin City University
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Human beings live in the realm of the possible as much as they do in the here and now of daily experience. We dream, hope, anticipate and create, e...
Series 2, Episode 13 - How can we manage and lead in an era of falsity? with Professor Kirk Plangger, King's Business School
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today on Brain for Business has recently written that “We are increasingly living in a society of falsehoods. News can be fake. Brands can...
Series 2, Episode 12 - The challenge of leading in a volatile world, with Professor John Katsos, American University of Sharjah
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Today we stand at the precipice of not one but three converging and potentially catastrophic long-term trends: climate change, globalization, and g...
Series 2, Episode 11 - Facing up to the reality of food addiction, with Professor Ashley Gearhardt, University of Michigan
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As of 2022, the World Health Organisation estimated that More than 1 billion people worldwide are obese – 650 million adults, 340 million adolescent...
Series 2, Episode 10 - Exploring the benefits of mind-wandering, with Professor Jonathan Schooler, UC Santa Barbara
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Letting our minds wander is more widespread than many people imagine: research has found that we can spend anywhere from 15% to 50% of our waking hour...
Series 2, Episode 9 - Is there a "psychology of innovation"? With Professor David Cropley, University of South Australia
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of our most popular episodes, this interview with Professor David Cropley was first released in January, 2021. Having finally succumbed to Covid a...
Series 2, Episode 8 - The curious history of business school classes for executives' wives, with Professor Allison Elias, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Professor Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An MBA is seen by many aspiring executives as a rite of passage and a necessary step in order to develop their network, hone their skills and fine-tun...
Series 2, Episode 7 - Is it time to re-think behavioural economics? with Dr Jason Collins, University of Technology Sydney
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades behavioural economics has emerged as a significant field in its own right. With a history going back almost a century and incorpora...
Series 2, Episode 6 - How can organisations better support transgender people in the workplace? With Professor Thekla Morgenroth, Purdue University
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While in the Western world, gender has traditionally been viewed as binary and as following directly from biological sex, in recent years these views ...
Series 2, Episode 5 - How leaders rely on deceit and manipulation to further their personal agendas, with Professor David Hannah, Simon Fraser University
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While we might all enjoy a magic trick or an intriguing sleight of hand by a magician, most of us prefer not to be actively deceived in our personal o...
Series 2, Episode 4 - How a fixation on time management almost broke me, with Professor Abbie Shipp, Texas Christian University
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all have the same number of seconds, minutes, hours and days in a week, yet some people seem to be able to use the time available to them so much b...
Series 2, Episode 3 - How can we better understand and manage unconscious bias? with Professor Jordan Axt, McGill University
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While bias and discrimination are far from new phenomena, in recent years we have all become much more aware of their meaning and impact. From me too...
Series 2, Episode 2 - Understanding the impact of magical beliefs, with Dr Emily Harris, The University of Melbourne
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Magical beliefs such as belief in luck and precognition are universal, yet the nature and extent to which such beliefs are embraced varies significant...
Series 2, Episode 1 - How the Industrial Revolution sparked innovation and led to an "improvement mentality", with Dr Anton Howes
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we look back on history, the industrial revolution in Britain seems likely an historical inevitability. Following on from the Scottish Enlighten...
Series 1, Episode 50 - How COVID-19 has impacted workplace wellness and wellbeing, with Professor Thomas Roulet, University of Cambridge
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have all been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic… perhaps we have had COVID ourselves, perhaps friends, family and loved ones have suffered. Yet ...
Series 1, Episode 49 - Serial killers or snakes in suits? The surprising truth about psychopaths, with Professor Cristina Crego, Longwood University
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While we might assume that all psychopaths are serial killers, the reality is that they are just as likely to be “snakes in suits”, haunting the c...
Series 1, Episode 48 – Suddenly Hybrid… the challenge of the modern meeting, with Professor Joseph Allen, University of Utah
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While once we might have been reluctant to have hybrid meetings, the COVID-19 pandemic and varying return-to-work protocols means that they are almost...
Series 1, Episode 47: Why do we forget history? And why do we remember it? with Professor Guy Beiner, Boston College
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The question of why we forget history has never been more relevant – only a few short years ago almost nobody had heard of the so-called “Spanish ...
Series 1, Episode 46: How can we better incentivise human behaviour? With Jason Murphy
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Regardless of whether we think of carrots or sticks, incentives influence and shape our behaviours. But what are incentives? Why are some incentives...
Series 1, Episode 45: Why some teams succeed fast but fail slow, with Professor Louise Mors, Copenhagen Business School
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent paper published in the journal Research Policy, Professor Louise Mors of Copenhagen Business School, together with Professor David Waguesp...
Series 1, Episode 44: How strong leaders can undermine the political parties they serve, with Professor Eoin O’Malley, Dublin City University
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While organisations can in some circumstances benefit from “strong leaders”, their longer lasting impact is not always so beneficial. By consideri...
Series 1, Episode 43: Why boredom is interesting, with Professor Erin Westgate, University of Florida
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Boredom. Something we all experience, yet so rarely think about. In reality, boredom is a normal aspect of the human experience so it is vital to as...
Series 1, Episode 42: How can entrepreneurial teams become more innovative? With Professor Linus Dahlander, ESMT
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
These days every organisation wants its teams to be more entrepreneurial and innovative. From holacracy to skunk-works and MBO to self-managing teams...
Series 1, Episode 41: How do you really know what a potential employer will be like? With Jason Sockin, University of Pennsylvania
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the “Great Resignation” apparently upon us, more and more people are considering ways of re-calibrating and finding a new path. Yet how do w...
Series 1, Episode 40: How do major life events impact our overall wellbeing? with Dr Nathan Kettlewell, University of Technology Sydney
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent article Dr Nathan Kettlewell and colleagues explored the impact that life events can have on overall wellbeing. What is the impact of majo...
Series 1, Episode 39: Exploring the human imagination and the world of “Homo Imaginatus”, with Philip Ball
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent article in the online magazine Aeon, the renowned science writer, Philip Ball, considered the concept of imagination and coined the phrase...
Series 1, Episode 38: Understanding the impact of narcissistic leaders, With Professor Jon Gruda, Maynooth University
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years we have perhaps seen a golden era of narcissistic leaders. Yet what is their real impact? And is being a narcissistic leader necessar...
Series 1, Episode 37: When work and home collide - dealing with the challenge of miscarriage in the workplace, with Professor Kaylee Hackney, Baylor University Hankamer School of Business
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If 20% of pregnancies result in miscarriage, why do we find it so hard to talk about it?In this episode of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podc...
Series 1, Episode 36: Surely Political Correctness is not actually good for creativity? With Professor Jack Goncalo, University of Illinos at Urbana-Champaign.
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a 2015 article, Professor Jack Goncalo and colleagues explored the impact of “political correctness” on creativity in work groups. At the time...
Series 1, Episode 35: So... what really did happen when we all started working remotely? with Jaime Teevan and Longqi Yang, Microsoft
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, remote working including working from home was in some cases a luxury and in others a case of organisational tria...
Series 1, Episode 34: Do teams and groups discriminate differently to individuals? With Professor Vessela Daskalova, University College Dublin
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The impact of bias on individual decision making has been widely explored, yet we actually do not know so much about how bias and discrimination happe...
Series 1, Episode 33: The unique challenges of leadership in policing, with Dr Victoria Herrington, Australian Institute of Police Management
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Policing organisations and the challenges they face are in many ways unique. So what are the implications for leadership and for those in leadership ...
Series 1, Episode 32: Why are we so afraid of the menopause? With Professor Jo Brewis, Open University Business School
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The menopause is a normal part of the human lifecycle for approximately 50% of the population, but all too often those experiencing the menopause are ...
Series 1, Episode 31: What is the real impact of over-work and a long-hours culture?, with Dr Frank Pega, World Health Organisation
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Working long hours can, for some, be a badge of honour proving to themselves and the world how important and irreplaceable they really are. Yet the l...
Series 1, Episode 30: What will happen to productivity when we all return to the office? With Professor Wlad Rivkin, Trinity Business School
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As societies begin the gradual return to office work after the worst of Covid has passed, what will be the impact on productivity of renewed commutes,...
Series 1, Episode 29: A masterclass in resilience and overcoming adversity, with Sacha Dekker, Vice President of Global Go-To-Market Enablement, HubSpot
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from The Netherlands, Sacha had an accomplished career as learning & development professional spanning the energy and technology sectors fo...
Series 1, Episode 28: Is there a dark side to entrepreneurial failure? With Professor Jeffrey Overall, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In modern mythology, most particularly that of Silicon Valley, failure and entrepreneurship go hand-in-hand. But is that always the case? And is the...
Series 1, Episode 27: Exploring the challenges of Whistleblowing, with Professor Kate Kenny, NUI Galway
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over recent years many countries and organisations have introduced legislation and policies to support whisteblowers, yet the challenges remain. Alt...
Series 1, Episode 26: Why do organisations fail? With Professor Charles McMillan, York University
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At a certain point all organisations are destined to fail, or are they?In a recent article, Professor Charles McMillan and colleagues explored some of...
Series 1, Episode 25: Brain for Business, Brain for Life First Anniversary Special Edition, With Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Little did we know when we kicked off Brain for Business 12 months ago how the year would turn out. So much has happened, and yet so much of our nor...
Series 1, Episode 24: The evolution of "productive organisations", with Professor Francisco Brahm, London Business School
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent article discussing the evolution of organisations, Professor Francisco Brahm and colleagues draw upon cultural evolution theory to explain...
Series 1, Episode 23: What does serendipity have to do with innovation? with Dr Wendy Ross, London Metropolitan University
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While we might like to think that innovation is a rational and considered process with a clear formula for success, the reality is somewhat different....
Series 1, Episode 22: Understanding radicalisation and de-radicalisation, with Robert Oerell
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In times of great turmoil and uncertainty radicalisation can emerge as a real challenge. Yet what is it that really drives radicalisation and how can...
Series 1, Episode 21: Increasing diversity in the technology sector through behavioural science, with Nurit Nobel, Impactually
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is sometimes claimed that more needs to be done to increase diversity in the tech sector, yet beyond rules and legislation, what tools do we actual...
Series 1, Episode 20: Is there a better way to deal with organisational BS? With Professor Ian McCarthy, Simon Fraser University
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent article Professor Ian McCarthy and colleagues argue that “Many organizations are drowning in a flood of corporate bullshit, and this is ...