Brain for Business

Series 3, Episode 27: Better understanding social entrepreneurship, with Professor Sheila Cannon, Trinity Business School

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

In the minds of many, entrepreneurship is an inherently capitalist activity – an entrepreneur starts a business and, all going well, it grows and they make money. Yet how does this explain the concept of “social entrepreneurship” and all that it entails? To explore this further it is a pleasure to welcome Professor Sheila Cannon to the Brain for Business podcast.

About our guest…

Sheila Cannon is Associate Professor in Social Innovation at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. She conducts research on and teaches about social enterprises, nonprofits, and civil society organisations. Her research contributes to knowledge on how organisations influence and respond to socio-cultural change. So far, she has studied contexts including peacebuilding, LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, digital disruption, just transition, rural development, and nature based enterprises.

You can find out more about Sheila and her research at this page:

https://www.tcd.ie/business/people/faculty-professors/cannonsh/

More information on some of the organisations discussed in the podcast is available on their websites:

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Series 3, Episode 26: How organisations select ideas, and how they might do it better, with Professor Dmitry Sharapov, Imperial College London

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

When it comes to innovation, decision making and other organisational processes, managing idea selection and maximising the outcomes in this selection process is critical, affecting both organisational performance and employee morale. So how do organisations select ideas? And how might they do this differently?

To explore this in more detail I am delighted to speak to Professor Dmitry Sharapov of Imperial College London.

About our guest…

Dmitry Sharapov is Associate Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy, and MRes/PhD Director for the Management & Entrepreneurship department.

Dmitry's research interests lie at the intersections of the literatures on competitive strategy, innovation management, and decision-making under uncertainty. His research, which has been published in journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy, aims to improve our understanding of (1) the antecedents, processes, and consequences of organizations imitating one another, (2) the inventive process and how organizations select which novel ideas to support, and (3) strategy in business ecosystems. Empirical settings for exploring these questions include large multinational technology companies, startup accelerators, the US movie industry, and the America's Cup World Series sailing competition.

The article discussed in the interview – Selection Regimes and Selection Errors – is available open access here: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2023.17482

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Series 3, Episode 25: How social class influences entrepreneurial performance with Professor Kristie Neff, Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:00:12 GMT

A recent paper, co-authored by our guest today, Professor Kristie Neff, addresses the question of how social class origin influences entrepreneurial performance most particularly in terms of individual-level risk-taking, and under what social network conditions the relationship between social class origin and entrepreneurial performance is most pronounced.

About our guest…

Kristie Neff is an Assistant Professor in the Ivy College of Business (Department of Management & Entrepreneurship) at Iowa State University.

At a broad level, Kristie’s research centers on the role of organizations in addressing pressing societal issues. Her main research investigates inclusive work, with a focus on social class within and around organizations. She is especially interested in the interpersonal interactions and organizational policies and processes that facilitate mobility. In 2025, Kristie received the Southern Management Association (SMA) Ascendant Scholar Award for early career academics.

You can find out more about Kristie and her work here:

The paper discussed in the interview - Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens - is available here: https://midus.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/3093.pdf

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Series 3, Episode 24: Why attitudes toward scientific consensus can be disastrous, with Professor Nick Light, University of Oregon

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

In a 2022 paper published in Science Advances, our guest today along with co-authors argued that “Public attitudes that are in opposition to scientific consensus can be disastrous and include rejection of vaccines and opposition to climate change mitigation policies.”

So what does this mean? And what are the implications for both science and society?

To discuss this I am joined by Professor Nick Light of the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon.

About our guest…

In his research, Nick applies what marketers and psychologists have learned about consumer knowledge, preferences, and risk perceptions to address problems relating to the public’s understanding of science. Nick also studies consumers’ perceptions of the simplicity or complexity of brands, objects, and phenomena, and the downstream consequences of those perceptions.

Prior to joining academia, Nick worked for about 8 years as a marketing manager and strategist for several Fortune 500 brands in New York City and interned at the United Nations.

Nick’s website with more information on his research can be accessed here: www.nicklightresearch.com
The paper discussed in the article - Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues - is open access and available here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0038
More information on University of Oregon Center for Science Communication Research can be found here: https://scr.uoregon.edu/

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Series 3, Episode 23: How can we establish optimal distinctiveness? With Professor Daphne Demetry, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

When people set up their own business or go it alone, it makes sense for to want to establish their own identity, yet sometimes that might come at a cost… what if your identity is so distinctive that potential customers or clients don’t understand what you do or why you are so special?

To explore the question of “optimal distinctiveness” in the context of strategic positioning I am delighted to be joined today by Professor Daphne Demetry.

About our guest...

Daphne Demetry is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Organization and Bensadoun Faculty Scholar in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University

As an organizational theorist and economic sociologist, Daphne uses primarily ethnographic and qualitative methods to explore questions of how entrepreneurs and organizations create and negotiate meaning as they interact with their audiences. She has explored these questions predominately in the craft and creative fields and especially the culinary industry, e.g., underground and pop-up restaurants, gourmet food trucks, and fine dining establishments.

You can find out more about Daphne’s research here: https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/daphne-demetry
The article discussed in the interview - Cutting the apron strings: Establishing optimal distinctiveness from mentors in creative industries by Daphne Demetry and Rachel Doern - can be accessed here (open access): https://sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smj.70003

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Series 3, Episode 22: Why would anyone be a micromanager? with Professor Catherine Deen, University of New South Wales Canberra

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

A 2020 article by the polling firm, Gallup, argued that:

“The micromanager has become a bit of a boogeyman in the business world. Nobody wants to work for one. Few managers want to be one. Everyone has a horror story about one.”

To explore the topic of micromanagement and its implications I am delighted to be joined by Dr Catherine Deen.

About our guest…

Catherine Deen is a Senior Lecturer in HR and Organisation Behaviour at the School of Business, University of New South Wales Canberra. As an organisational behaviour researcher, Catherine has a growing reputation for excellent research in the areas of work-related intimate partner aggression, leadership, and the vocational experiences of vulnerable workers. Prior to entering academia, Catherine amassed more than 20 years of industry experience in educational administration, teaching, and research.

Since formally entering academia in 2018, Catherine’s research has been published in a range of top management journals.

To find out more information about Catherine and her research take a look at the following links:

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Series 3, Episode 21: Developing a theory of collective stupidity, with Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan, University College London

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

“Collective stupidity is fairly common in organisations. Firms full of very smart individuals who act in reckless ways that destroy them. Governments and nations that engage in acts of self-harm, descending into economic decline or civil war. Armies that repeat failed tactics. It’s easy to see collective stupidity as something others slip into because of their own idiocy or moral failings. But this perspective misses much. We are all party to such follies.”

So wrote our guest today, Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan, in a recent paper on the focus of our conversation: Collective Stupidity and its implications for individuals, organisations and society.

About our guest

Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the first director of the think-tank Demos; and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio

The article discussed in the interview is open access and is available here:

Mulgan, G. (2025). A Theory of Collective Stupidity in Organisations–and Possible Remedies. Organization Studies, 46(9), 1331-1335.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01708406251349313

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Season 3, Episode 20: Why we need to rethink stardom, with Professor Ernest O’Boyle, Indiana University, and Dr Martin Götz, University of Zurich

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

A forthcoming article by our guests today – appropriately titled “Rethinking Stardom" - argues that:

Star performers are increasingly capturing the attention of both researchers and practitioners alike. However, studies on these uber-performers often employ disparate definitions, theoretical foundations and assumptions, and methods and analyses, which creates significant tension and confusion in the comparison of findings and the formation of a clear understanding of what star performance truly entails and its impact on individuals, teams, and organizations.

To better explore the concept of star performers in organisations I am delighted to be joined by the two authors of this paper: Professor Ernest O’Boyle, Dale Coleman Chair of Management and Professor at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, and Martin Gotz, Senior Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

The article discussed in the interview is available here:

O'Boyle, E. H., & Götz, M. (2025). Rethinking stardom: A relativistic approach to studying the absolute best performers. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 13.
Rethinking Stardom: A Relativistic Approach to Studying the Absolute Best Performers | Annual Reviews

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Series 3, Episode 19: Why leadership development is failing us, with Professor Moran Anisman-Razin, University of Limerick

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

According to Forbes magazine, in 2020 alone global spend on corporate training programmes, often focused on leadership development, exceeded $350 billion. Yet how effective, if at all, are these programmes? And are they perhaps just a massive waste of time and money? To dig deep into the question of why leadership development might be failing us I am delighted to be joined on the podcast by Professor Moran Anisman-Razin.

About our guest…

Dr. Moran Anisman-Razin, is an Associate Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Work and Employment Studies at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. She is also a Visiting Research Scholar at the Behavioral Science and Policy Center, Social Science Research Institute at Duke University, USA and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Innovative Leadership, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins university.

Through her work, Moran explores questions of leadership in organizations and is particularly interested in examining leaders' perspectives and identities as shaping behavior, leader development, and exploring ways to make leadership development programs more evidence-based and rigorous.

The MIT Sloan Management Review article discussed in the interview - Leadership Development Is Failing Us. Here’s How to Fix It - is available here: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leadership-development-is-failing-us-heres-how-to-fix-it/

A key article also referenced in the interview - Uncomfortable but Developmental: How Mindfulness Moderates the Impact of Negative Emotions on Learning - https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amle.2023.0434

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Series 3, Episode 18: Does the “beauty bias” impact leader emergence?, with Professor Stephen Courtright, Texas A&M University

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

In a forthcoming article now available, our guest today, Professor Stephen Courtright, along with co-authors tackle the question of the “beauty bias and leader emergence”. Or to put that into plain English: how important is physical attractiveness to leadership? While pop psychology might tell us one thing, what does the evidence actually tell us and why should we care?

About our guest…

Stephen Courtright is Professor of Management & Flip and Susan Flippen Endowed Chair and Founding Director of the Flippen Leadership Institute at Texas A&M University.

Stephen’s research focuses on organizational leadership, teamwork, and work-family dynamics, and has been published in a range of academic journals and has earned many international awards and been featured by outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Forbes, Fox News, and Harvard Business Review.

The article discussed is available here:

Courtright, S. H., Thurgood, G. R., Liao, H., Morgan, T. J., & Wang, J. (2025). The Beauty Bias and Leader Emergence: A Theoretical Integration, Extension, and Meta-Analysis. Journal of management, 01492063251330199.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063251330199

You can follow Stephen’s work and that of the Flippen Leadership Institute on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-courtright-54776325/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/flippen-leadership-institute/posts/?feedView=all

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Series 3, Episode 17: Is it ok to be nosy, or should I just mind my own business? with Professor Richard Currie, Boston University

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Research has consistently found that maintaining a healthy balance between work and other areas of life often requires people to establish and maintain boundaries those various areas. Yet as humans we might also be curious or indeed nosy about the people we are working with or who might be working for us – if only just to find out a little bit more about them. But what actually is nosiness and when might that be perceived to have gone too far?

To explore the question of nosiness I am delighted to be joined by Professor Richard Currie.

About our guest…

Dr. Richard Currie is an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Workplace Psychology in the School of Hospitality Administration at Boston University.

Dr. Currie’s research interests center around work-related social stressors and the implications that employees’ responses to these stressors have on critical organizational knowledge management outcomes such as knowledge sharing and counterproductive knowledge hiding behaviors.

You can find out more about Richard’s work at these links:

Google Scholar – https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qqxawt8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Boston University – https://www.bu.edu/hospitality/profile/richard-a-currie/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/racurrie/

Some of the articles discussed in the interview include the following:

Currie, R. A., Achyldurdyyeva, J., Guchait, P., & Lee, J. (2024). For my eyes only: The effect of supervisor nosiness on knowledge sharing behavior among restaurant workers. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 120, 103770.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278431924000823?via%3Dihub
Currie, R. A., & Ehrhart, M. G. (2025). Mind Your Own Business: Developing and Validating the Workplace Nosiness Scale. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-24.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-025-10018-7

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Series 3, Episode 16: How can teams become more resilient? with Professor Daniel Gucciardi, Curtin University

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Adversity is inherent within most – if not all – occupational contexts in which the performance of individuals and teams is crucial for organisational effectiveness.

With its central focus on what enables people to resist, bounce back, or recover from adverse events that threaten their functioning, viability, or development, it is unsurprising that the concept of resilience has attracted a significant focus over the past 40 years. However, the majority of this past work has focused on resilience among individuals despite the fact that in in most contexts, whether work, sport or education, people typically complete tasks within teams that work interdependently for a specified timeframe to achieve a common and valued outcome or objective.

In order to better understand the nature of team resilience, a recent paper co-authored by our guest today – Professor Daniel Gucciardi - seeks to address this gap in the literature.

About our guest…

Daniel Gucciardi is a Professor in the Curtin School of Allied Health at Curtin University in Western Australia.

Daniel’s research portfolio sits at the interface of the psychological and behavioural sciences, and utilises basic and applied research paradigms to advance knowledge and practice on the complexities of human performance and health. Daniel’s work and interests focus on human performance and health primarily within the context of stress, where he examines concepts like resilience, team dynamics, self-regulation, and behaviour change.

You can find out more about Daniel’s work via his Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ovDUT-EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Series 3, Episode 15: The one where we talk about humor, with Matt Nadel, St John’s University

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Humor is a phenomenon experienced by most, if not all, human beings. Throughout human history humor has played a role in communication and interactions between people, yet how often do we actually take the time to consider what is humor, and more to the point, what is humorous?

To discuss this, I am delighted to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Matt Nadel.

About our guest...

Matt Nadel is a doctoral candidate and adjunct professor at St. John's University in New York studying communication in organizations. Prior to joining St John’s University, Matt worked as a CPA and auditor at a Big 4, and ran a phenomenally successful baseball blog.

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Series 3, Episode 14: Exploring Dark Creativity, with Dr Hansika Kapoor, Monk Prayogshala

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

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 flipside to creativity – a dark side, if you will. To explore the concept of dark creativity I am delighted to be joined today by Dr Hansika Kapoor.

About our guest…

Hansika Kapoor is a Research Author at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, a not-for-profit research organisation in Mumbai. Hansika’s work has been published in leading journals including Creativity Research Journal, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Personality and Individual Differences and she regularly contributes to popular media publications, including Psychology Today, Mint, and The Wire.

You can find out more about Hansika’s research, including on the topics of creativity and dark creativity, on her website: https://www.hansikakapoor.in/

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Series 3, Episode 13: Why we need to ensure academic legitimacy, with Dr Raffaele Ciriello, University of Sydney

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

As regular listeners will know, the Brain for Business podcast focuses primarily on research by academics and others into the brain, behavioural and organisational sciences. Key to what we do is an underlying assumption that the people we interview and the research that we discuss with them is supported by a strong degree of academic legitimacy. In other words, the research is at the very least robust and evidence-based. Yet in recent years, questions of academic legitimacy have bubbled to the surface with ever greater frequency and is the focus of a recent pre-print paper currently under review at a leading journal by our guest today, Dr Raffaele Ciriello.

About our guest...

Dr Raffaele Ciriello is a tenured Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney. Raffaele’s research explores the intersection of digital innovation, decentralized governance, and ethics, blending rigorous interdisciplinary work with qualitative and dialectical inquiry to address complex sociotechnical dilemmas.

The pre-print article referred to in the interview - Safeguarding Academic Legitimacy: Editorial Conflicts of Interest as a Principal-Agent Problem in Elite Business Journals - is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5315585

Webpages for Raffaele and his collaborator, Vitali Mindel, are available here:

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Series 3, Episode 12: Are female experts more credible than male experts? With Professor Hans Sievertsen, University of Bristol

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:55:11 GMT

A recent open access article in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization reported on results from research comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by visibly senior, female versus male experts. Common wisdom might hold that women suffer from an “authority gap” compared to their male peers, but is that really the case?

To explore the findings of this research I am delighted to be joined by one of the authors of the study, Professor Hans Henrik Sievertsen.

About our guest…

Hans Henrik Sievertsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol, and is also a senior researcher at the Danish Center for Social Science Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. Hans is an applied microeconomist, working mainly on topics related to education, health, and gender.

The articles discussed in the interview are as follows:

"Do female experts face an authority gap? Evidence from economics"
with Sarah Smith, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation (2025). Available to read here: https://www.hhsievertsen.net/content/papers/Sievertsen_Smith_2025.pdf
"The gender gap in expert voice: evidence from economics"
with Sarah Smith, Public Understanding of Science (2024). Available to read here: https://www.hhsievertsen.net/content/papers/Sievertsen_Smith_2024.pdf

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Series 3, Episode 11: Why CEO curiosity matters, with Professor Patricia Klarner, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Despite the old saying that “curiosity killed the cat”… the importance of curiosity for information seeking and gathering in organisations is well established. Yet little is known about the role that CEO curiosity plays in strategic choices and decision-making. To explore this further and to discuss the findings of a recent paper in the journal Strategic Organization, I am delighted to be joined today by Professor Dr. Patricia Klarner.

About our guest...

Professor Dr. Patricia Klarner is Director of the Institute for Organization Design at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). Prior to her current position, she worked on the faculties of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and the University of Munich (LMU).

Professor Klarner’s research focuses on corporate strategy and adaptation, corporate governance, strategic organization design, and strategic leadership. She particularly examines how organizations can remain agile and successful in times of increasingly volatile and unpredictable business environments. Her research provides insights into how organizations can balance change and stability in their organization design and how key strategic actors – top management teams and boards of directors – influence strategic adaptation and growth decisions over time.

The article discussed in the interview is open access and is available here:

CEO Curiosity and Strategic Change: The Differential Role of Curiosity Types and TMT Characteristics

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14761270251325238

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Series 3, Episode 10: Why beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies, with Professor Brooke Macnamara, Purdue University

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

A 2023 opinion piece in the journal Nature Psychology challenged the prevailing perspective on success and achievement, essentially arguing that we have it all wrong! So, where does the truth about success and achievement really lie??? To discuss this I am delighted to be joined by one of the co-authors of that article, Professor Brooke Macnamara.

About our guest...

Brooke Macnamara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. In her research, Brooke is interested in how various factors predict skilled performance variance – both performance changes within an individual and performance differences across individuals.

The Nature Psychology opinion piece discussed in the interview can be accessed here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-023-00255-z
You can find out more about Brooke's work at the Skill, Learning and Performance Lab at Purdue University here: https://hhs.purdue.edu/skill-learning-and-performance-lab/

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Series 3, Episode 9: How should firms balance exploration and exploitation? with Dr Axel Zeijen, ETH Zurich

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Balancing exploration and exploitation is a fundamental strategic challenge for organizations operating in dynamic environments. Managers must decide how often and when to search for new technologies and products, weighing the costs of exploration against the risk of missing trends that could render their business models obsolete

To dig deep into this topic I am delighted to be speaking today to Professor Axel Zeijen.

About our guest…

Axel Zeijen is a Lecturer at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

With a background in industrial engineering and innovation sciences, Axel is broadly interested in technological change and its organizational implications. In particular, he attempts to understand where and how technological forces and firm strategy interact, and how this process plays out. His research projects cover industries where new

technologies change the capabilities of firms, create new opportunities for change, and affect how competition plays out.

The articles discussed in the podcast area as follows (both open access):

Zeijen, A., Romagnoli, M., & Marengo, L. (2025). Signposts for problemistic search: Reference points and adaptation in rugged landscapes. Strategy Science. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/stsc.2023.0072
Denrell, J., Zeijen, A., Romagnoli, M., & Marengo, L. (2025). Absolute, average‐based, and rank‐based aspirations. Strategic Management Journal. https://sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smj.3715

Websites for Axel and each of his co-authors are as follows:

Axel Zeijen - https://timgroup.ethz.ch/people/senior-researchers/dr-axel-zeijen.html
Jerker Denrell - https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/jerker-denrell/
Manuel Romagnoli - https://www.wiwi.uni-jena.de/en/11462/dr-manuel-romagnoli
Luigi Marengo - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OKWSBtQAAAAJ&hl=en

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Season 3 Episode 8: Why and how does founder age perception influence funding outcomes? With Dr Michael Matthews, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:00:00 GMT

A recent article in the Journal of Business Venturing sought to address the question of: Why and how does founder age perception influence funding outcomes?

To discuss the importance of this question and the key findings of the paper I am delighted to be joined by Dr Michael Matthews, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.

About our guest...

Michael Matthews, Ph.D., studies leadership and the intersection between work and life. Michael received his B.S. (Brigham Young University) and M.S. (The University of Oklahoma) in information systems. Later, he received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (University of Oklahoma) with a particular focus on organizational behavior. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His writing has been featured in outlets such as the Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review. Prior to entering academia, Michael worked as a computer programmer for several technology companies. In particular, Michael has coded for organizations such as ExxonMobil and Proofpoint.

More information:

Just a number? Using artificial intelligence to explore perceived founder age in entrepreneurial fundraising (from Journal of Business Venturing): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883902623000757
Research Powered by AI Shows Age Discrimination in Entrepreneurial Fundraising (from California Management Review): https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2024/03/research-powered-by-ai-shows-age-discrimination-in-entrepreneurial-fundraising/

Two other papers mentioned in our conversation:

Eren, O., & Mocan, N. (2018). Emotional judges and unlucky juveniles. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(3), 171-205.
Nault, K. A., Pitesa, M., & Thau, S. (2020). The attractiveness advantage at work: A cross-disciplinary integrative review. Academy of Management Annals, 14(2), 1103-1139.

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Series 3, Episode 7: The importance of Learning to See with Professor Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina

Wed, 28 May 2025 04:00:00 GMT

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 Sawyer explores the way that people see and learn to see, offering an engaging and profound account of how professional artists and designers create and how they teach others to do it. In the interview we explore the key insights from Keith's research and their significance for anyone working in any role or organisation.

About our guest…

Keith Sawyer is Morgan Distinguished Professor of Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina.

Keith has dedicated his career to the study of creativity and learning. His research helps us answer questions such as: Which teams are more creative? What team processes result in greater creativity? Which groups are more likely to contribute to more effective learning of the participants? Which organizations and classrooms are most likely to foster effective group interactions?

Learning to See: Inside the world's leading art and design schools by Keith Sawyer is available to purchase here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551649/learning-to-see/

You can find out more about Keith's work via his Substack and Podcat:

The Science of Creativity Podcast is available here: https://sawyerpodcast.com/
The Science of Creativity Substack can be accessed here: https://keithsawyer.substack.com/

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Series 3, Episode 6: The Creativity Choice, with Dr Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Yale University

Wed, 14 May 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Creative work in itself is stressful and riddled with anxiety-provoking uncertainties. It takes resilience to persist through these challenges. It takes willingness to endure and overcome obstacles, from the internal voices of doubt and self-criticism to scarce material resources to difficulties in getting support for ideas. How are creative people able to do what others cannot? How do they transform the challenges and difficulties that original ideas are riddled with into actions and achievements?

It is just these questions that our guest today, Dr Zorana Ivcevic Pringle explores in her new book, The Creativity Choice, published by Hachette.

About our guest…

Zorana Ivcevic Pringle is a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence where she currently serves as the Director of the Creativity and Emotions Lab. Zorana studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills.

Find out more about Zorana’s work and order her book, The Creativity Choice, here: https://www.zorana-ivcevic-pringle.com/

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Series 3, Episode 5: Are generations a useful concept? With Professor David Costanza, University of Virginia

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:00:00 GMT

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 on are not just real but are something that leaders and organisations need to take seriously in order to ensure their effectiveness into the future. But is that really the case? Is there really a scientific basis to support arguments and assertions about generational differences and their impact on organisations?

To explore these questions, I am delighted to welcome to Brain for Business Professor David Costanza.

David Costanza is a professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

About our guest...

Professor Costanza’s research focuses on generational differences; adaptive leadership; high potential; organizational culture, decline, and death; as well as statistics and research methods. He has published in Journal of Business and Psychology; Journal of Vocational Behavior; Personnel Psychology; and Work, Aging and Retirement. He has authored for Slate and has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, TIME magazine, VOX, and Yahoo! Finance. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Business and Psychology and Work, Aging and Retirement.

The 2023 article from the journal Acta Psychologica – Are generations a useful concept? – can be accessed here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823002354
The Slate article referred to – Can We Please Stop Talking About Generations as if They Are a Thing? – to is available here: https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/the-evidence-behind-generations-is-lacking.html

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Series 3, Episode 4: What drives the adoption of innovation? With Professor Radu Dimitriu, Trinity College Dublin

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:00:00 GMT

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 innovations by customers, users or stakeholders. Yet what drives the adoption of innovation and how can organisations support the greater adoption of their offerings?

To discuss this it is a pleasure to speak today with Dr Radu Dimitriu, Associate Professor in Marketing at Trinity College Dublin.

About our guest...

Dr Radu Dimitriu is an Associate Professor in Marketing at Trinity College Dublin. Radu has a PhD from BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, and prior to joining TCD worked with Cranfield University in the UK (2010-2018). His research is focused on branding, consumer behaviour and psychology, social media marketing, CSR and prosocial behaviour, consumer responses to sensory-enabling technologies, and consumers' adoption of AI-enabled technologies such as autonomous products and chatbots. On the Trinity MBA, Radu is also coordinating the programme's capstone Strategic Company Projects, as well as lecturing on Marketing Strategy. Radu has been consulting for blue chip companies and regularly engages with the industry; recent engagements include that of Judge at the Ireland User Experience Awards and of Speaker at the Customer Experience Professional Association Day. A citizen of the world, he speaks several languages including English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese and his mother tongue, Romanian.

The paper discussed in the interview is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296324006106

Radu's Google Scholar page can be accessed here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DRbb4T8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

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Series 3, Episode 3: Why Individuals Commit Professional Misconduct, with Professor Will Harvey, Melbourne Business School

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:00:00 GMT

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 times it is due to professional misconduct – often leading to significant consequences for both the organization and the individuals concerned.

To explore the issue of professional misconduct in greater depth, I am delighted to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by the co-author of a recent paper on the subject, Will Harvey.

Will Harvey is a Professor of Leadership at Melbourne Business School in Australia and is currently the Director of the Social Purpose Centre, as well as being an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Will researches on reputation, talent management and leadership within organisations. He has recently published the book, Reputations at Stake, with Oxford University Press and his work has appeared in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Management Learning, Work, Employment & Society, and the British Journal of Management.

The article discussed in the interview - Why Individuals Commit Professional Misconduct and What Leaders Can Do to Prevent It – is published in California Management Review and is available to download here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00081256241305815

Full Reference: Harvey, W. S., Arora, N., Currie, G., & Spyridonidis, D. (2024). Why Individuals Commit Professional Misconduct and What Leaders Can Do to Prevent It. California Management Review, 00081256241305815.

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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)

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:00:00 GMT

In recent years, whether we like it or not, AI or artificial intelligence, has become omnipresent, pervading online systems of all types. In a recent paper our guests today argue that a “human rights frameworks can be regarded as the common denominator between law and ethics and have a crucial role to play in the ethics-based legal governance of AI.” Yet what might this mean in practice and how might we ensure that the opportunities offered by AI are taken full advantage of and not inadvertently stifled?

To discuss this I am delighted to be joined by Professor Linda Hogan, Professor of Ecumenics at the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Marta Lasek-Markey of the Adapt Research Centre, hosted by Trinity College Dublin.

About our guests...

Professor Linda Hogan is an ethicist with extensive experience in research and teaching in pluralist and multi-religious contexts. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of inter-cultural and inter-religious ethics, social and political ethics, human rights and gender.

Dr Marta Lasek-Markey is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ADAPT, the world-leading SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology, brings leading academics, researchers and industry partners together to deliver excellent science, engage the public, develop novel solutions for business across all sectors and enhance Ireland’s international reputation.

The paper discussed in the interview is open access and is available here:

Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Ethical AI Governance in Europe by Linda Hogan and Marta Lasek-Markey - https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/6/181

You can find out more about the the Adapt Centre at Trinity College and the FORSEE project here:

https://www.adaptcentre.ie/

https://www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-events/forsee-project-kicks-off-in-dublin/

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Series 3, Episode 1: Understanding how memory really works, with Professor Gillian Murphy, University College Cork

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:00:00 GMT

We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them. A new book, Memory Lane, co-authored by our guest today, Professor Gillian Murphy, introduces readers to the cutting-edge science of human memory, revealing how our recollections of the past are constantly adapting and changing, and why a faulty memory isn’t always a bad thing.

About our guest

Gillian Murphy is an Associate Professor senior lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork in Ireland and leads the Everyday Cognition Lab. Gillian’s research interests primarily relate to understanding attention and memory in everyday scenarios. She has conducted research examining distraction and attention failure in simulated driving environments and eyewitness memory for crimes.

Much of her recent research relates to misinformation - assessing who is most susceptible to misinformation, how and when do false memories form in response to misinformation, and developing interventions to reduce harm.

You can find out more about Gillian's research here on The Everyday Cognition Lab homepage: https://www.everydaycognitionlab.com/

Details on Memory Lane by Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy are available here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691257099/memory-lane

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Series 2, Episode 49: The reality of pursuing a calling, with Professor Kirsten Robertson, Fraser Valley University

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 04:00:02 GMT

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 work a day in your life’. Yet how realistic is this? And how realistic is it for people to strive to find their ultimate life calling – if there even is such a thing?

To explore the question of callings in greater depth I am delighted to be joined by Professor Kirsten Robertson of Fraser Valley University in Canada.

About our guest…

Dr. Kirsten Robertson is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources in the School of Business at Fraser Valley University.

Kirsten’s research explores the lived experiences of individuals at work, with a particular focus on work meaningfulness, the interface between work and non-work, and workplace relationships with both people and animals. She has published her research in leading management journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Organizational Behavior.

The paper discussed in the interview - Living life ‘to the core’: Enacting a calling through configurations of multiple jobs – is open access and is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00187267241251956
Kirsten’s Google Scholar page can be accessed here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Piek-GcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Kirsten’s profile page at the University of Fraser Valley is available here: https://www.ufv.ca/business/faculty-and-staff/robertson-kirsten.htm

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Series 2, Episode 48: How does diversity impact team performance? With Dr Lukas Wallrich, Birkbeck Business School, University of London

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:32:20 GMT

The question of diversity is one that we have discussed previously on the Brain for Business podcast. While the benefits of diversity are often taken for granted and assumed in the popular press and discourse, research examining the actual benefits of diversity in terms of team effectiveness and performance have – up until now – been sadly lacking.

In a paper to be published shortly in the Journal of Business of Psychology, our guest today, Dr Lukas Wallrich and colleagues seek to address this gap in the literature.

About our guest...

Dr Lukas Wallrich is a Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck Business School , University of London, where he teaches on organisational psychology master programmes and primarily researches how workforce diversity can be harnessed to improve organisational performance. Other research interests include the effect of intergroup contact on pro-social behaviour, the development of stereotypes and implicit associations and the influence of traditional and new media on public attitudes.

Prior to moving into academia, Lukas worked as a consultant with McKinsey and Co.

Lukas’s personal website is as follows: https://www.lukaswallrich.coffee/
A pre-print copy of the article discussed is available here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nscd4
The interactive web app with the data from the article can be accessed here: https://lukaswallrich.shinyapps.io/diversity_meta/

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Series 2, Episode 47: How will megatrends impact our future? With Dr Claire Naughtin, Data61 and the CSIRO

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:00:01 GMT

Over four decades ago the American author and futurist, John Naisbitt, captured the public imagination with his book Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives. Since that time, the concept has been widely adopted by researchers, consultants, private enterprises and governments to explore long-term futures across a diverse range of regions, industries and socioeconomic domains.

Yet what are megatrends?

And how can we better understand their significance and impact?

To explore this I am delighted to be joined on Brain for Business by Dr Claire Naughtin.

Dr Claire Naughtin is a Principal Research Consultant at Data61 – part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or CSIRO, an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.

Claire leads Data61’s Digital Futures team and specialises in future-focused, strategic projects and has worked across a diverse range of policy and industry domains, including the future of trade, employment, healthcare and emerging technology and industry development opportunities. Among her most recent work, Claire co-led the delivery of CSIRO’s Our Future World report – a once-in-a-decade report that identified seven emerging megatrends that will shape the next 20 years for Australia.

Claire is passionate about bridging the gap between research and the real world and equipping leaders with a data-informed narrative of the future to help guide long-term decision-making. As part of this, Claire delivers strategic foresight training and workshops to help organisations build resilience to uncertain futures and publishes her research in scientific and industry journals.

You can find out more about Claire and her work on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-naughtin/
The “Our Future World” report can be accessed online: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/data/Our-Future-World
Further information about Data61 and the CSIRO is available here: https://www.csiro.au/en/about/people/business-units/data61

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Series 2, Episode 46: Why authentic, ethical, and servant leadership, are not true representations of leadership behaviors, with Professor Thomas Fischer, University of Geneva

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:00:44 GMT

A recent paper in the journal Leadership Quarterly explores the very nature of leadership styles and how they play out, ultimately asserting that: "the common finding that positive leadership styles lead to positive outcomes […] might be an artifact of conflation rather than a reflection of reality” (p. 1).

Yet what are positive leadership styles and why have generations of leadership researchers so badly misinterpreted their impact?

Joining me on the Brain for Business podcast to discuss the findings of the paper is one of its co-authors, Professor Thomas Fischer of the University of Geneva.

About Thomas Fischer

Thomas Fischer is an Associate Professor at the University of Geneva and is the Yearly Review Editor of The Leadership Quarterly, the premier journal fully dedicated to leadership research. Thomas Fischer’s work focuses on managing people in organizations, and in particular on two topics. First, the conceptualization and measurement of leadership styles. Second, how people talk about their own leadership and whether their practice lives up to what they preach.

Details of the articles discussed in the podcast are as follows:

Fischer, T., Dietz, J., & Antonakis, J. (2024). A fatal flaw: Positive leadership style research creates causal illusions. The Leadership Quarterly, 101771. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984323000978
Fischer, T. (2023). Measuring behaviors counterfactually. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(6), 101750. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984323000760
Fischer, T., & Sitkin, S. B. (2023). Leadership styles: A comprehensive assessment and way forward. Academy of Management Annals, 17(1), 331-372. https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/annals.2020.0340
Alvesson, M., & Blom, M. (2022). The hegemonic ambiguity of big concepts in organization studies. Human Relations, 75(1), 58-86. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0018726720986847

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Series 2, Episode 45: How ideology intersects with media coverage, with Professor Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 04:00:40 GMT

A recent article in the journal Organization Science argues that

“Although prior research attributes news media coverage of firms to the alignment of firm behavior with societal expectations of appropriateness, the appropriateness of firm behavior is judged through an ideological lens. Therefore, the influence of a firm’s behavior on its news media coverage is likely to be contingent on news organizations’ ideology.”

The veracity of this statement has seemingly never been more true than in recent years when the news media has become increasingly polarised along ideological grounds and there would at times appear to be a news outlet to support any view, however mainstream or obscure.

To explore this further I am delighted be joined by one of the co-authors of the paper, Professor Georg Wernicke of HEC Paris.

About our guest…

Georg Wernicke is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC Paris. Georg’s research is on topics in, and at the intersection of, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR), broadly defined. More specifically, he is interested in the drivers of public disapproval of firms’ practices, for example the compensation firms pay to their CEOs, how firms’ prosocial activities affect disapproval, and, in turn, which subset of firms and CEOs reacts to being targeted. Georg also analyzes how the characteristics and values of CEOs affect firm level outcomes such as corporate misconduct or the adoption of prosocial practices, as well as how demographic minority status affects labor-market outcomes for directors after occurrences of financial fraud. Furthermore, Georg engages in projects that explore the antecedents of superior firm performance on CSR.

The article referenced in the discussion is available here: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.2022.17237
You can find out more about Georg and his work at his personal page: https://www.georg-wernicke.com/
Or on his faculty page at HEC Paris: https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/WERNICKE-Georg

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Series 2, Episode 44: Are all innovation failures the same? With Professor Elena Freisinger, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:00:57 GMT

Innovation is an inherently risky business. When we push the boundaries of possibility and try to develop new products, processes or services, we are by definition moving into areas that are new and unexplored. A key consequence of this is that innovation sometimes – or even often – results in failure. But why is this? And are all innovation failures the same?

To explore this further, I am delighted to be joined by Dr Elena Freisinger who, together with Professor Ian McCarthy of Simon Fraser University, has recently published on just this topic.

About our guest…

Elena Freisinger is an Assistant Professor of Innovation Management at Ilmenau University of Technology in Thuringia, Germany.

Elena’s research focuses on the behavioral aspects of Innovation Management, and she investigates the behavior of innovation decision-makers with regard to technological and environmental change and how this affects innovation management and business models of organizations.

The article discussed is open access and can be downloaded from here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224000452

You can find out more about Elena and her research here:

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Series 2, Episode 43: Why has the Internet not led to an upsurge in innovation? with Professor Lingfei Wu, University of Pittsburgh

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:00:34 GMT

Over the last number of years, the internet has facilitated much greater connectivity and interaction between people – both on a personal and professional level. Intuitively we might expect that this would lead to an upsurge in innovation as people are exposed to new ideas and can easily collaborate with many more people. And, indeed, this would very much with the recombinant theory of innovation. Yet is that really the case?

To explore this further I am delighted to be joined by Professor Lingfei Wu of the University of Pittsburgh.

Lingfei Wu is Assistant Professor of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research leverages big data, complexity sciences, and AI to understand how science and technology can advance through collaborative teamwork, known as the Science of Team Science and Innovation.

His research has been published in prestigious academic journals like Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and featured in renowned media outlets. Lingfei Wu also advises organizations like Novo Nordisk Fonden and John Templeton Foundation on the use of data science to evaluate teamwork in science. He has received multiple awards for his research and teaching, including the NSF Career Award, Richard King Mellon Award, and Oxford Martin School Fellowship.

Lingfei’s personal site is accessible here: http://lingfeiwu.github.io/

The paper discussed in the interview is available here: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2206/2206.01878.pdf

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Series 2, Episode 42: How "Literary Futures" can change the way we think about opportunities, with Professor Rebecca Braun, University of Galway

Wed, 22 May 2024 04:00:07 GMT

In many areas of life – both personal and professional – the need to envision potential futures and establish how to get there is crucial. Indeed, some would argue that the ability to envision potential futures is part of what defines us as human beings. And while there are well established approaches such as scenario planning and forecasting, a recent paper in journal Futures outlines a promising new approach, informed by literature and the great literary works. To discuss this, I am delighted to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Professor Rebecca Braun.

Professor Rebecca Braun is the Executive Dean of College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies at the University of Galway.

Prior to joining the University of Galway in 2021, Rebecca was Professor of Modern Languages & Creative Futures at Lancaster University in the UK, where she was also Co-Director of the Institute for Social Futures from 2017-2020. Rebecca held further lectureships and research fellowships at the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Oxford in the UK and at the Freie Universität Berlin.

The article discussed in the interview is available here – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328724000314
More information on the Literary Futures approach is available here –
https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2024/03/22/using-literary-futures-to-open-up-the-imagination-methods/
Rebecca Braun’s University Page can be access here – https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/languages-literatures-and-cultures/rebeccabraun/
The Futures journal can be accessed online – https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/futures
The Next Wave Futures blog can be subscribed to online – https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/

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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

Wed, 08 May 2024 04:00:33 GMT

In recent years, Diversity along with Equity and Inclusion have emerged as key elements of organisational and people strategy. It is now essentially a “taken for granted” assumption that DEI initiatives are a good thing and that they in turn play an important role in reducing bias and inequality in the workplace. But is this really the case?

To explore this further I am delighted to be joined today by Professor Karin Hellerstedt and Professor Timur Uman, both of Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, who were co-authors with Karl Wennberg of Linkoping University of a recent paper published in Academy of Management Perspectives.

About our guests...

Karin Hellerstedt is a Senior Associate Professor at Jönköping International Business School.

Karin has conducted research on entrepreneurship in knowledge intensive industries, and on how firms and teams are formed and develop over time.

She has been involved in several research projects dealing with different aspects of entrepreneurship such as academic, rural and knowledge intensive entrepreneurship. Karin Hellerstedt has written and published several research reports and published in international peer review journals.

Her current research centers around ownership transitions and the succession of privately held businesses.

Timur Uman is a Professor in Accounting and Control at Jönköping International Business School.

Timur’s research deals with corporate governance and management control in stock listed corporation, hybrid and public organizations and new ventures. His work has been published in premier journals in Business Administration such as Corporate Governance: An International Review, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of World Business and Long-Range Planning among others.

Prior to joining academia Timur worked in executive positions in Latvian and German companies dealing with financial management and planning.

The paper discussed in the interview is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4308670

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Series 2, Episode 40: Understanding the benefits of creative and adaptive leaders, with Dr Oana Velcu-Laitinen

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:00:50 GMT

A recent paper in the Journal of Possibility Studies argues that creativity is an essential skill for effective leadership and that creative leaders can motivate their teams more effectively and can handle novel challenges by being more flexible in going outside the typical routines. Key to this is the important role played by a leaders’ creative identity and the recognitions that leaders can deliberately enact their creative identities in their roles, based on two ways to understand their creativity: as a way of thinking or as a personality type.

Just as importantly, however, leaders need to be adaptive in their approach – both to leadership and to the cultures they encourage in the workplace.

To discuss this further I am delighted to be joined by Dr Oana Velcu-Laitinen

About our guest…

Dr Oana Velcu-Laitinen is a researcher and consultant who works in the areas of creativity, change, innovation and well-being.

Her focus is challenging the habitual thinking of leaders, researchers and other knowledge workers to bring positive change and breakthroughs to their workplaces and domains of knowledge.

Oana has a published a number of papers and books, including “How to develop your creative identity at work”, published in October 2022.

You can find out more about Oana and her work here:

· https://www.linkedin.com/in/oana-velcu-laitinen-phd-6081084/

· https://www.velcu.fi/

The article from the Journal of Possibility Studies discussed in the interview is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27538699231226173

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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

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:00:25 GMT

When it comes to decision making, overconfidence is acknowledged as one of the most common managerial decision making biases. Nonetheless, much uncertainty remains about the implications of CEO overconfidence most particularly in terms of risk taking and ultimately organisational performance.

To explore the impact of CEO overconfidence in more detail I am delighted to be joined by Dr Barbara Burkhard and Professor Charlotta Sirén of the Institute for Responsible Innovation at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

Barbara Burkhard is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Responsible Innovation at the University of St.Gallen

Barbara’s research is centered on the psychology of top managers and employees. She specializes in researching how the cognition, emotions, and other individual factors influence top managers and employees’ decisions, behaviors, and, consequently, organizational outcomes.

Charlotta Sirén is an Associate Professor of Management at the Institute of Responsible Innovation at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Charlotta’s research focuses on key elements of entrepreneurship including the psychological aspects of entrepreneurship, informal entrepreneurship, responsible innovation and new venture teams.

You can find out more about the work of both Barbara and Charlotta on the website of the Institute of Responsible Innovation at the University of St Gallen: https://iri.unisg.ch/

The paper discussed – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: A Meta-Analysis of CEO Overconfidence, Strategic Risk Taking, and Performance – is open access and is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01492063221110203

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Series 2, Episode 38: How feedback can super-charge your organisation, with Professor Henning Piezunka, INSEAD

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:00:33 GMT

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 stakeholder needs? Or instead does it just hope for the best and pray that any improvements, changes or innovations somehow meet those needs?

To explore the role of feedback and the pivotal role it can play I am delighted to be joined by Professor Henning Piezunka of INSEAD.

Key insights:

Feedback is vital for organisations and it is vital that they seek it out
Not all feedback is equal, organisations need to be clear who is sharing it and how relevant it is
People giving feedback notice what the organisation responds to and adjust their responses accordingly
The clearer an organisation’s positioning, the more relevant will be the ideas and feedback received – though this comes with the potential cost of missing out on more unusual ideas that might be important
Organisations must manage the trade-off between narrowing the feedback criteria to get something that is very focused, versus looking for a broad range of responses
When organisations respond to feedback online they are not only responding directly to that person but also to other potential customers who will take note of how the organisation has responded
Feedback is not always objective, but rather reflects performance against expectations – and these expectations can be framed based on the feedback of others

About Henning

Henning Piezunka is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD and is currently a Visiting Professor at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Henning is an award-winning researcher who studies how organisations can tap into the knowledge of their members to foster greater inclusion, innovation and diversity. He has also conducted research into the crowdsourcing of ideas and the wisdom of the crowds. In another stream of research, Henning studies collaboration and competition, such as the factors that escalate competition into dangerous conflict. He has further researched succession in family firms and how people can improve their ability to interact with others by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Through his research, Henning has developed significant expertise across various domains, including start-ups, technology companies, family businesses and a range of sports. He has leveraged data from sports such as Formula One, soccer and chess to shed light on effective management practices. Henning’s work and expert opinions have been featured in leading business media including Time Magazine, The Economist and Harvard Business Review.

You can follow Henning on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henningpiezunka/

The paper discussed is available here: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2022.0710

(Full reference: Park, S., Piezunka, H., & Dahlander, L. (2024). Coevolutionary lock-in in external search. Academy of Management Journal, 67(1), 262-288.)

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Series 2, Episode 37: The challenge and opportunity of CEO activism, with Asst Professor Moritz Appels, Rotterdam School of Management

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:00:38 GMT

When people consider a new employer they might think about a number of key factors, including location, salary, opportunities for growth and advancement, pension and others.

One factor which has emerged in recent years is consideration of a potential employers stance on social issues, most particularly relating to their values. More than this, however, research by our guest today – Professor Moritz Appels – highlights that potential hires also consider a CEO’s sociopolitical activism in evaluating how attractive a new, potential employer might be.

About our guest…

Moritz Appels is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim in 2022.

His research illuminates how the behaviour of corporate actors shapes and is shaped by organizational and societal change, with a particular focus on the relationship between strategic leadership, social evaluations, and the broader socio-political environment. A particular focus of his work is the impact of corporate and CEO activism—e.g., speaking out on gun ownership in the U.S.—on stakeholder behaviours. He is likewise involved in understanding the environmental and dispositional antecedents of top managers’ engagement in organisational and societal change.

You can find out more about Moritz and his work at these links:

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Series 2, Episode 36: Why Grand Innovation Challenges Matter, with Associate Professor Vera Rocha, Copenhagen Business School

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 05:00:18 GMT

Sometimes the challenges facing humanity are beyond the scope or remit of just one person or indeed one organisation. Often termed “grand challenges”, these problems might be bigger, more impactful or simply require greater resources to resolve. Equally, their resolution might need more coordinated efforts and collaboration across a wider range of stakeholders to ensure that they are effectively addressed. In more recent times, and perhaps fitting with the times we live in, the term “grand innovation challenges” has also been used. To explore this further I am delighted by joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Professor Vera Rocha of Copenhagen Business School.

About our guest...

Vera Rocha is Associate Professor in Economics and Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School. Vera’s research is at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategic human capital, and labor market inequality.

Among other questions, Vera has been studying the determinants of career transitions into entrepreneurship, the causes and implications of hiring strategies as firms emerge and mature, how entrepreneurial activity can affect both individual careers and society at large, and how organizations contribute to expand or reduce labor market inequalities.

In addition, Vera is Co-Editor-in-Chief at Industry & Innovation and serves in the Editorial Review Board of Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, and Small Business Economics.

You can find out more about Vera’s research here:

The special issue of the journal Industry and Innovation which focuses on Grand Innovation Challenges can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ciai20/31/1?nav=tocList

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Series 2, Episode 35: Better understanding the psychology of entrepreneurship, with Professor Ute Stephan, King’s Business School

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:00:49 GMT

The psychology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship is a fascinating area. Let’s face it – it can sometimes seem completely bizarre that someone might leave a possibly well-paid and secure job in order to follow their entrepreneurial dream. Yet this is exactly what some people do, despite all the risks and challenges involved.

So what is the “psychology of entrepreneurship”? And what is it that makes entrepreneurs so unique?

About our guest…

Ute Stephan is Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School, King’s College London, a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Fellow. She serves as Associate Editor at the Journal of Management and at Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. From 2015-2019 she was Editor-in-Chief of Applied Psychology: An International Review and from 2019-2022 Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies.

As an expert on the Psychology of Entrepreneurship, Ute explores how individuals and societies can thrive through entrepreneurship. Ute’s research builds evidence on how contexts (culture and institutions) shape entrepreneurship and well-being, and how entrepreneurship, in turn, can help to build more inclusive societies.

You can find out more about Ute’s research here: https://sites.google.com/site/stephanute/home

Some relevant articles co-authored by Ute on the psychology of entrepreneurship are as follows:

Gorgievski, M. J., & Stephan, U. (2016). Advancing the psychology of entrepreneurship: A review of the psychological literature and an introduction. Applied Psychology, 65(3), 437-468.

- https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/28176/1/Advancing_the_psychology_of_entrepreneurship.pdf

Gorgievski, M. J., Stephan, U., Laguna, M., & Moriano, J. A. (2018). Predicting entrepreneurial career intentions: Values and the theory of planned behavior. Journal of career assessment, 26(3), 457-475.

- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1069072717714541

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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

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:00:49 GMT

While we have previously explored the question of narcissism and the dark triad of personality traits on the Brain for Business podcast, the question of how narcissistic leaders impact on overall organisational performance is something we are yet to consider in great detail. Yet this is exactly what our guests today, Professor Thanos Verousis of Vlerick Business School and Professor Pietro Perotti of the University of Bath, examine in a recent paper co-authored with Shee-Yee Khoo of Bangor Business School and Richard Watermeyer of the University of Bristol. To do this they examine the narcissism of university vice chancellors in the context of the overall performance of their universities. While this might perhaps seem a little obscure to those outside academia, Vice Chancellors are ultimately the CEOs of large and complex organisations and the transferrable insights are many.

Key findings include:

The appointment of a highly narcissistic VC leads to an overall deterioration in research and teaching performance and concomitantly league table performance
Key potential mechanisms explaining this include excessive financial risk taking and empire-building
The findings are consistent with the view that narcissism is one of the most prominent traits of destructive leadership
There are practical implications for leadership recruitment and the monitoring of leadership practices in the higher education sector

The article discussed - Vice-chancellor narcissism and university performance – can be accessed here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733323001853

About our guests…

Thanos Verousis is a Professor in Sustainable Finance at Vlerick Business School, Associate Editor at the Journal of Futures Markets and the European Journal of Finance.

In his research he is particularly interested in understanding behavioural biases and decision-making in finance, especially with respect to departures from the classical rational expectations theory. Thanos also works on Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in finance, especially in applications involving machine learning and robo-advising. You can find out more about Thanos’s research here: https://sites.google.com/site/thanosverousis/

Pietro Perotti is a Senior Lecturer, or Associate Professor, at the University of Bath. Pietro researches the capital market consequences of accounting information, financial reporting quality and market microstructure. Pietro’s research has been published in a range of leading journals including Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Research Policy, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Empirical Finance and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

You can find out more about Pietro’s research here: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/pietro-perotti

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Series 2, Episode 33: Understanding the impact of founder personalities on startup success, with Dr Fabian Braesemann, Oxford Internet Institute, The University of Oxford

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:00:57 GMT

The Big 5 Model of Personality is perhaps the most consistently reliable model of personality used in research around the world. Focusing on the key elements of conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience and extraversion, the Big 5 model has been applied to evaluate personality traits in my contexts including not least leadership. A recent paper – co-authored by our guest today on Brain for Business – Dr Fabian Braesemann – considered the Big 5 traits most commonly found in entrepreneurs and founders, assessing amongst other things what are the personality characteristics of typical of founders and how they contribute to start-up success.

About our guest…

Dr Fabian Braesemann is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.

Fabian’s research focuses on the Science of Success. He uses data science methods to quantify the determinants of success in different fields:

1. The Science of Success in Business

2. Success and the Future of Work, and

3. Quantifying success online and offline

Before Fabian started to work as a Departmental Research Lecturer at the OII, he worked as a Research Fellow & Data Scientist in the Future of Real Estate Initiative at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and as a Data Scientist at the OII on projects that applied data science to understand human development and labour markets

The article co-authored by Fabian is available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41980-y
The 2019 Nature article discussed in the podcast (“Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security” by Yin et al.) is available here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.07562.pdf
You can find out more about Fabian via his Linkedin page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-braesemann-210645138/_ or else via the OII website (https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/fabian-braesemann/)

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Series 2, Episode 32: Understanding Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation, with Robert Oerell

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:00:45 GMT

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 we better support de-radicalisation?

Given the events of recent months around the world, we felt it timely to re-issue of Brain for Business Episode 22 of Series 1 which was an interview with internationally recognised expert in radicalisation and de-radicalisation, Robert Örell.

Based in Stockholm, Robert Örell is an internationally sought-after trainer, speaker, workshop facilitator and expert in the field of radicalisation, disengagement, and intervention.

Robert Örell has two decades of experience in the field of disengagement and exit work and has led Exit programs in Sweden and in the USA.

Since 2011, Robert has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) and he currently works as an independent expert, consultant, and trainer in the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism field. His recent work focuses on setting up exit programs, online counseling in exit work, and advising on policy guidelines and recommendations.

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Series 2, Episode 31: Does it really matter whether we “identify” with our organisation? With Professor Chia-Huei Wu, King’s Business School

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:27:49 GMT

In recent years it has become commonplace for organisations of all types to loudly proclaim their values and purpose, and encourage their employees to align and identify with them. Yet what does it mean for people to identify with their employer or organisation? And why does it really matter? Surely it is enough for people to turn up for work, do their job diligently and then get on with their lives?

To explore the concept of Organisational Identification further it is an absolute pleasure to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Professor Chia-Huei Wu.

About Chia-Huei...

Chia-Huei Wu is a Professor in Management at King's Business School, London. Chia-Huei’s research in organizational behaviour concerns the person–environment dynamics and has two research streams: Employee Proactivity (i.e., why, when, and how employees can use their proactivity to change and improve the work environment) and Work and Personality Development (i.e., whether and how work experiences shape one’s personality development). Building on these two research streams, he has investigated topics in innovation and voice, leadership, work design, career development, workplace wellbeing, job change, and overqualification.

Chia-Huei has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters and his work has appeared in top-tier journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Management Journal, among others.

Chia-Huei is the author of the book, Employee proactivity in organizations, a co-author of the book, Work and Personality Change, and the co-editor of the book, Emotion and Proactivity at Work. He has also contributed chapters to a range of other books on these topics.

The article discussed in the interview is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01492063221140049

More information about Chia-Huei's research is available through either of these sites:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chia-huei-wu-b7b3b21b/

Google: https://sites.google.com/view/cwu-proactivepsy/c-wu

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Series 2, Episode 30: How does power impact on psychopathic behaviours and leadership outcomes? with Dr Iris Kranefeld, Cologne Institute for Management Consulting

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:00:32 GMT

The question of psychopathy and psychopaths in the workplace is something that we have discussed before on the Brain for Business podcast. Yet it remains a fascinating and worthwhile topic, most particularly when considered in terms of power and leadership outcomes.

To explore this further I am delighted to be joined by Dr Iris Kranefeld where we discuss a recent paper published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

Key highlights include:

Position power acts as a trait-relevant cue for psychopathy in leaders.
When power is high, psychopathic meanness negatively relates to team performance.
Under high power, team performance mediates the relation of meanness and effectiveness.

The article discussed in the podcast is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886922004214

About Iris

Iris is a graduate of University of Bonn from where she has a PhD in work and organisational psychology. Since July 2023, Iris has been a senior consultant with the Cologne Institute for Management Consulting / Kölner Institut für Managementberatung in Germany. A key focus of Iris’ research is the “dark triad” of personality traits, most particularly psychopathy and how it plays out in the workplace.

You can find out more about Iris’ work at these sites:

Researchgate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Iris-Kranefeld-2
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-kranefeld/?locale=en_US
Cologne Institute of Management Consulting - https://www.ki-management.com/

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Series 2, Episode 29: How can we better understand and manage organisational scandals? With Professor Julien Jourdan, HEC Paris

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:00:56 GMT

“Scandals regularly sweep through organizational fields: they wreak havoc in markets, vaporize billions of dollars in firm value, bring down giant corporations, get CEOs fired, alter the evolution of technologies, and trigger major changes in society. In spite of their significance for organizational life, scandals have received remarkably limited attention in management research.”

So says our guest today on the Brain for Business podcast, Professor Julien Jourdan, who attempts to address this gap in the literature by building on the social sciences’ sparse but growing stream of research on scandals to provide new insights and understandings.

Julien Jourdan is an Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources at HEC Paris.

Julien’s research focuses on reputation, legitimacy, and other social evaluations of organizations. In so doing, he examines how a) stakeholders evaluate organizations in institutionally complex environments and b) how these evaluations shape organizational conduct, governance, strategy, and performance.

Julien has previously held academic positions at Imperial College London, Università Bocconi, and PSL-Paris Dauphine, and before moving into academia was a finance executive at a major film studio.

The article referred to in the podcast is available here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7x2rb/download

More information on Julien and his research is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/julienjourdan/

https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/jourdan-julien

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Series 2, Episode 28: Free agents: How evolution gave us free will, with Professor Kevin Mitchell, Trinity College Dublin

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:00:57 GMT

“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 is reasonably well captured… by a more commonsense understanding of the (still useful) notion of free will. That understanding entails, first, the ability to make choices – that we really can choose what to do. Our actions are not simply determined by outside forces because we’re causally set apart from the rest of the universe to at least some degree. And, just as importantly, we are not driven by our own parts. Rather, we holistically – our selves – are in charge.”

So says our guest today on the Brain for Business podcast, Dr Kevin Mitchell, of Trinity College Dublin.

Kevin takes an evolutionary approach to the question of free will and amongst other things argues that:

Humans have agency and the capacity of self-control – we have the ability to adjust our focus and behaviour in real time depending on what is happening around us
While genes do influence our behaviour, this is not a direct or deterministic relationship and there are many factors that impact on our innate natures and behaviours
These factors include learning and experience, as well as the important and largely positive role played by constraints, including the basic need for a survival as well as social rules, norms and culture

About Kevin…

Dr Kevin Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin.

Kevin’s research is aimed at understanding the genetic program specifying the wiring of the brain and its relevance to variation in human faculties, especially to psychiatric and neurological disease and to perceptual conditions like synaesthesia. As part of his research, Kevin also studies the biology of agency and free will.

Kevin is an active communicator on Twitter and writes a popular blog on the intersection of genetics, development, neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. He also regularly gives public lectures and media interviews on diverse topics, with the goal of promoting public understanding of neuroscience and genetics. His 2018 book "Innate; How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are", published by Princeton University Press, develops an integrative conceptual framework in which to consider the origins of variation in human faculties, through a novel synthesis of findings from behavioural genetics, developmental neurobiology, neuroscience and psychology. Kevin’s most recent book – Free agents: How evolution gave us free will – is published on 3rd October, 2023, but Princeton University Press.

You can find more about Kevin’s work at his website – www.kjmitchell.com – at his blog - (http://www.wiringthebrain.com – and by following him on Twitter: @WiringtheBrain.

Kevin’s latest book, Free agents: How evolution gave us free will, is available on Amazon (https://amzn.eu/d/7Qkafwv) as well as all good bookstores.

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Series 2, Episode 27: Why don’t people work as hard for female entrepreneurs? With Professor Olenka Kacperczyk, London Business School

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:00:17 GMT

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 limited to the product or service not meeting market needs, the business model being flawed, or early-stage funding not materialising. One potential issue not often discussed is the impact of employee commitment and the extent to which those working for startups are prepared to put in the discretionary effort sometimes needed to get the startup over those critical early-stage challenges, something which is apparently experienced to a much greater extent by female founders when compared to their male peers.

To discuss this I am delighted to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Professor Olenka Kacperczyk of London Business School.

Amongst other things Olenka argues that:

Women face well-documented obstacles when looking to found startups
Research has consistently revealed patterns of inequity in the sharing of venture capital, but reasons for the performance gap between male and female-led startups are unclear
A key factor may be that people generally are significantly less motivated to work for women than they are for men
To address this, it is vital that educators and others intensify efforts to promote awareness of often-unconscious discriminatory behaviours to address bias against female bosses

About Olenka

Olenka Kacperczyk is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. She received her PhD from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and prior to joining London Business School, Olenka held a faculty position at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Olenka’s research focuses on entrepreneurship and examines (a) why individuals sometimes give up their jobs and become entrepreneurs and (b) how people’s movements into entrepreneurship affect social inequality, workplace segregation, and income distribution.

Olenka currently serves as an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly. She has previously served as an Associate Editor at Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Management Science. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Kauffman Junior Faculty Scholarship for Entrepreneurship Research and the William F. Glueck Award at the Academy of Management. Olenka teaches topics related to entrepreneurial strategy and strategic management in established firms.

The paper discussed - Do Employees Work Less for Female Leaders? A Multi-Method Study of Entrepreneurial Firms - is available online https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2022.1611

You can find out more about Olenka’s research here: https://www.olenkak.com/

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Series 2, Episode 26: How can we encourage people to eat more healthily? With Dr Sarah Snuggs, University of Reading

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:00:02 GMT

Internationally, healthy adults are consistently falling below national and international recommendations for physical activity and failing to meet guidelines for dietary intake. Interventions to address behaviour change in these fields typically target clinically at-risk individuals, yet these do not always work and obesity levels in developed countries continue to rise with significant implications for both individuals and societies. So what then are some of the barriers and facilitators to healthy eating and exercise, and how can we as societies help people to sustain positive physical activity and healthy eating behaviour change?To explore this I am delighted to be joined by Dr Sarah Snuggs of the University of Reading.Drawing on a novel online community health programme and survey, recent research undertaken by Sarah and colleagues (https://psyarxiv.com/pq4bs/) across five countries found that:-Key motivators for positive health behaviours include enjoyment of health behaviours, positive emotions before and after activities, and clear reward structures-Barriers included difficulties with habit-breaking, giving in to temptation and negative affective states, i.e. a bad mood!-Changes in physical activity and eating behaviour were mutually supportive-Those with a high BMI placed more importance on social motivators (e.g. social pressure) than those with healthy BMISarah and colleagues consequently concluded interventions to support adults who are not chronically ill but who would benefit from improved diet and/or increased physical activity should not focus exclusively on health as a motivating factor. Emphasis on enjoyable behaviours, social engagement and the role of reward will likely improve engagement and sustained behaviour change. About Sarah…Dr Sarah Snuggs is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. Her research interests include children and family eating behaviours and other health behaviours.You can find out more about Sarah’s work and research at these sites:-https://research.reading.ac.uk/kids-food-choices/ -Twitter: @sarah_snuggs-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyfoodin5/

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Series 2, Episode 25 : Introducing a ‘Stop Doing’ Culture: How to free your organization from rigidity with Dr Adrian Klammer, University of Liechtenstein

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:00:02 GMT

In a 2019 article published in Business Horizons our guest today on the Brain for Business podcast, Dr Adrian Klammer, together with colleagues Thomas Grisold and Stefan Gueldenberg argued that organisations need to introduce a “stop doing” culture. But what is a “stop doing culture”? and what does it mean for leaders and their organisations?Originally from Austria, Adrian has a doctorate in business economics from the University of Liechtenstein and is affiliated with the Liechtenstein Business School. Adrian’s academic research is focused on Organizational unlearning and learning in different contexts, especially innovation; Organizational change; Organizational development. Adrian has published widely in top tier journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Business Horizons, Management Learning, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, International Journal of Innovation Management, European Journal of Innovation Management.The article discussed – Introducing a ‘Stop Doing’ Culture: How to free your organization from rigidity – can be accessed here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0007681319300357 You can find out more about Adrian’s work via these links:LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-klammer/ Google Scholar – https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FavrW2IAAAAJ University of Liechtenstein – https://www.uni.li/en/who-s-who/@@person_detail/1531774.67

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Series 2, Episode 24 - “Talking Heads: The new science of how conversation shapes our worlds", with Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:00:02 GMT

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 are experts in their fields and through the conversations that ensue we try to delve deep into their research as well as into their way of seeing and understanding the world around them, most particularly as it relates to the questions that they have chose to explore.It consequently made perfect sense for us to interview our guest today, Professor Shane O’Mara. Shane has not only played a key role in the Brain for Business initiative – both the events and the podcast – but more importantly for today’s conversation his latest book, “Talking Heads: The new science of how conversation shapes our worlds”, explores the impact that conversation has on our our worlds!Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College, Dublin - the University of Dublin. He is a Principal Investigator in, and was formerly director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, one of Europe’s leading research centres for neuroscience and is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator. Shane has published more than 140 peer-reviewed academic papers as well as a number of books including “Why Torture Doesn’t Work”, “A Brain for Business, A Brain for Life, and “In Praise of Walking”.“Talking Heads: The new science of how conversation shapes our worlds” is published by Bodley Head and is released in Europe on 3rd August, 2023.

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Series 2, Episode 23 - Banishing the Sunday Night Blues, with Professor Ilke Inceoglu, University of Exeter

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:00:00 GMT

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. Unlike some people who make a point of waking that early in order to get a head start on the week, for me this was just another Monday morning when I woke far too early with far too many thoughts about work buzzing through my head. What perhaps made it worse is that I had also struggled to get to sleep early the night before as those same thoughts kept spinning around!To discuss this phenomenon, sometimes called the Sunday Night Blues, I am delighted to be joined by Professor Ilke Inceoglu. About Ilke…Professor Ilke Inceoglu is a Professor in Organisational Behaviour & HR and Director of the Exeter Centre for Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School. Her research focuses on employee well-being and work behaviour, and has been published in leading journals such as Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.Ilke is currently also Primary Investigator on the ongoing Banishing the Sunday Night Blues research programme commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK and delivered in close partnership with Investors in People. The Banishing the Sunday Night Blues project aims to investigate the experience and impact of the Sunday Night Blues and develop a toolkit with guidance for employees, line managers and HR Directors to help banish the Sunday Night Blues.You can find out more about the Banishing the Sunday Night Blues research project at these links:https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/sunday-night-blues-caused-by-weekend-emails-and-blurred-boundaries-study-reveals/https://business-school-expertise.exeter.ac.uk/banishing-the-sunday-night-blues/

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Series 2, Episode 22 - How can we more effectively grapple with "Blame Games"? With Asst Professor Sandra Resodihardjo, Radboud University

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:00:01 GMT

Sometimes in life things go wrong… mistakes, accidents, even disasters will occur. From festivals that fail due to poor advance planning, product launches that simply fail to, well, launch through to public construction projects that seem to drag on for ever and end up costing much more than originally envisaged. And typically when things do go wrong there are calls for inquiries, accountability and the apportionment of blame, sometimes leading to demands for heads to roll. To explore these questions further and to dig deeper into the question of blame games, we are joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Assistant Professor Sandra Resodihardjo of Radboud University.About Sandra…Sandra Resodihardjo is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Institute for Management Research, Radboud University. Her research focuses on questions relating to safety/security issues and public policy. Sandra has written on agenda-setting, policy reform, inquiries, local safety policies, and blame games following crises. Sandra is currently working on resilience & crisis management, blame games, and NGOs and disaster management.For more information on Sandra’s work on Blame Games, take a look at the following links:Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PxO8KoYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Read Sandra’s book Crises, Inquiries and the Politics of Blame: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-17531-3Or read Sandra’s latest open access chapter Blame Games. Stories of Crises, Causes, and Culprits: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429355950-25/blame-games-sandra-resodihardjo

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Series 2, Episode 21 – Developing new perspectives on collective wellbeing, with Theo Edmonds, University of Colorado Denver Imaginator Academy

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 04:00:03 GMT

A recent project in the US sought to map collective wellbeing. Supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Mapping Collective Wellbeing Project aimed to better understand the wellbeing ecosystem in the United States and globally. In so doing, the project aimed to address a number of key questions: “How do we co-create a vision and appreciation of the roles we play in working toward collective wellbeing? What might deepen, strengthen, and broaden this work? Where are there connections in unlikely places? Where and how do we begin?To explore the question of collective wellbeing in greater detail, I am delighted to be joined by Theo Edmonds who contributed to that research.About Theo…Theo Edmonds is a skilled, energetic Culture Futurist™ and innovator with over 25 years senior-level strategic national and international leadership experience spanning the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. A seasoned communicator, Theo’s unconventional background traverses and connects scholarly research with pop culture across scientific disciplines, data analytics, creativity, and cultural wellbeing in the places we work, learn, heal, and explore. As Directing co-founder of University of Colorado Denver’s Imaginator Academy - a cultural analytics, strategy, and futurist innovation hub, Theo is a weaver of ideas who scouts global networks of entrepreneurs, companies, scientists, artists, creative innovators, and change-makers of all kinds in order to find hidden opportunities that others miss.An experienced builder of industry-university collaborations, Theo and collaborators have been recognized across many areas – ranging from “Trailblazer” awards in research for culture analytics innovation inside a National Science Foundation-sponsored lab to a number of national grants and vision awards in arts and creative economy.You can find out more about Theo and his work at: www.theoedmonds.comMore information about the Mapping Collective Wellbeing Project is available on their website: https://mappingcollectivewellbeing.org/Details of the Brain Capital Innovation Summit can be accessed here: https://www.broadreach-global.com/braincapital

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Series 2, Episode 20 - How does behavior change spread through organizations? with Professor Damon Centola, University of Pennsylvania

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 04:00:00 GMT

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. But have you ever thought about how change – most especially behavioural change – spreads through networks, societies and, indeed, organisations? To explore this further we are joined on the Brain for Business podcast by one of the world's leading thinkers in this area, Professor Damon Centola.About our guest…Damon Centola is the Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Damon’s research centers on social networks and behavior change. His work has received numerous scientific awards and, in addition to his positions at the University of Pennsylvania, is a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.Popular accounts of Damon’s work have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, TIME, The Atlantic, Scientific American and CNN, among other outlets. He is a series editor for Princeton University Press and the author of How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions and Change: How to Make Big Things Happen.Damon’s U Penn webpage can be accessed here: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/damon-centola-phd The Scientific American article referred to in the interview is available here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-25-revolution-how-big-does-a-minority-have-to-be-to-reshape-society/The underlying research in that article is available via this link: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aas8827

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Series 2, Episode 19 - Leveraging business podcasts to enhance organizational performance, with Professor Jake Waddingham, Texas State University

Wed, 31 May 2023 04:00:04 GMT

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 a moment, with a reputed 2.5 million podcasts listed in Apple podcasts.When we think about who listens to podcasts, data from the US indicates that podcast listeners are 68% more likely to have a postgraduate degree, and 45% of podcast listeners have a household income over $250,000.And why do people listen to podcast? Apparently 74% of people listen to podcasts in order to learn new things.To discuss podcasts in more detail, and in particular consider how leaders can leverage business podcasts to enhance organizational performance, I am delighted to be joined by Professor Jake Waddingham.Jake Waddingham is an Assistant Professor of Management at McCoy College of Business at Texas State University. Jakes research explores how organizations and entrepreneurs manage stakeholder perceptions and his research has been published in the Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies and Business Horizons amongst others.Jake can be contacted via one of the following sites:•Google scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XFWZXWYAAAAJ•LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwaddingham/ The Business Horizon’s article referenced in the discussion is:Insights on the go: Leveraging business podcasts to enhance organizational performance by Jacob A. Waddingham, Miles A. Zachary, David J. Ketchen Jr. It is available to access here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339444655_Insights_on_the_go_Leveraging_business_podcasts_to_enhance_organizational_performanceThe podcast statistics quoted above are from this site: https://nealschaffer.com/podcast-statistics/The various podcasts mentioned during the discussion include:•Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman – https://mastersofscale.com/•The Indicator from Planet Money - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510325/the-indicator-from-planet-money•Worklife with Adam Grant – https://adamgrant.net/podcasts/work-life/•Business Wars with David Brown - https://wondery.com/shows/business-wars/•Freakonomics with Stephen Dubner – https://freakonomics.com/series/freakonomics-radio/ •Econtalk with Russ Roberts - https://www.econlib.org/econtalk/ •Axios Sports with Kendall Baker – https://www.axios.com/authors/kbaker

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Series 2, Episode 18 - How leaders can develop their Cultural Intelligence, with Professor Eimear Nolan, Trinity Business School

Wed, 17 May 2023 04:30:01 GMT

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 unexpected insights into different traditions and different ways of doing things. Yet what is “culture”? How can it be understood? And how can leaders strengthen their Cultural Intelligence and that of the organisations they lead? To dig a bit deeper into these questions I am delighted to be joined on the programme by Professor Eimear Nolan of Trinity Business School.Eimear Nolan is Assistant Professor of International Business and Director of the Flexible Executive MBA at Trinity Business School in Dublin. She gained her PhD in International Management from the University of Limerick, where she investigated the cultural adjustment and fit of internationally trained doctors working in Ireland. Prior to joining Trinity Business School Eimear held academic positions in the UK and the USA. Eimear is a co-country investigator (for Ireland and the UK) on the world renowned GLOBE Project 2020. Her research interests are in expatriate adjustment, cultural intelligence, recruitment and retention strategies, ethics, and the health care sector. You can find out more about Eimear’s work here:-Culture Shocked Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3bD8L2mrm66hcfmxPkmqJG -LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eimear-nolan/-The Globe 2020 Project: https://www.globeproject.com/

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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

Wed, 03 May 2023 04:00:04 GMT

While often seen as discrete and distinct phenomena, could it be that creativity and innovation are just variations on the same theme? Absolutely yes, says Dr Zorana Ivčević Pringle, and what is more rather than being purely logical and rational processes, both creativity and innovation are impacted by emotions in ways that many of us fail to recognise. Starting with a deceptively simple definition of creativity, this episode of Brain for Business charts a course from personal creativity and problem solving through to the role of leaders in supporting greater creativity and innovation in the teams and organisations they lead. Along the way, we discuss innovation in a hospital context and the creativity of some of history’s great artists, not to mention the important role played by emotional contagion and leader self-compassion. Dr Zorana Ivčević Pringle is a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Zorana studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills. Zorana has published her research in journals such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Creative Behavior and others. Her work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, ArtNet, US News, Education Week, Science Daily, El Pais, and others, and she is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and Creativity Post. You can find out more about Zorana's work at these links: Personal website: https://www.zorana-ivcevic-pringle.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zorana-ivcevic-pringle/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZoranaPsych

Update 30th October, 2023 - Zorana has just launched a Substack newsletter which definitely worth subscribing to! creativitydecision.substack.com

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Series 2, Episode 16 - How Social Media Supercharges Conspiracy Theories, with Professor Henrich Greve, INSEAD

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:00:04 GMT

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 that COVID-19 was developed in a lab and released on purpose, or assertions that the world is run by some kind of “Deep State” shadow government, erroneous conspiracy theories have had a significant and dangerous impact. This has been made all the worse by social media which has allowed conspiracy theories to grow and multiply almost exponentially.To explore this further I am delighted to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Professor Henrich Greve. Henrich Greve is the Rudolf and Valeria Maag Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. Henrich’s research interest is strategic change in organizations, mostly from a learning perspective, and includes examining how networks of organizations change, how organizations and communities are related, and how innovations are made and spread. Henrich has published over 80 articles in journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Management Science.More recently, in an article published in American Sociological Review with co-authors Hayagreeva Rao, Paul Vicinanza and Echo Yan Zhou, Henrich examined Online Conspiracy Groups: Micro-Bloggers, Bots, and Coronavirus Conspiracy Talk on Twitter.Henrich’s blog and general reflections are available here: https://www.organizationalmusings.com/Some general thoughts from Henrich on how conspiracy talk helps people make sense of the world are available here: https://knowledge.insead.edu/strategy/how-conspiracy-talk-helps-people-make-sense-worldThe article from American Sociological Review discussed in the podcast can be accessed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00031224221125937?journalCode=asra

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Series 2, Episode 15 - How can new managers develop a “leadership mindset”?, with Professor Bret Crane, Utah State University

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:00:00 GMT

The transition from individual contributor to manager is never easy. New managers need to take responsibility not just for their own performance, but also for that of team. They need to place less emphasis on doing, and much more on the essential skills of leading, influencing and communicating. Core to this is the development of a “leadership mindset”. But what is a leadership mindset? And what steps can managers and their organisations take to better develop the right mindset and perspectives for leadership?To discuss this I am delighted to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Professor Bret Crane.Bret Crane is an Associate Professor of Leadership at the Jon. M. Huntsman School of Business and the Executive Director of the Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center at Utah State University.Bret’s research focuses on leadership mindsets. As a respected authority and researcher on topics related to leadership, management, and organizational behavior, Bret has published articles across a variety of journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of World Business, Business & Society, and Human Resource Development Review.Before joining the faculty at the Huntsman School of Business, he was a Visiting Professor at the George Washington School of Business in Washington DC.As a consultant, Bret works with organizations to improve their leadership, teams, organizations, and culture. His clients have included American Express, Honda, Lowe’s, General Mills, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Biogen, USAA, and others.Bret’s USU homepage is accessible here: https://huntsman.usu.edu/directory/crane-bretBret’s Business Horizons article - Leadership mindsets: Why new managers fail and what to do about it - is available to access here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0007681321000987

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Series 2, Episode 14 - Exploring the science of possibilities, with Professor Vlad Glaveanu, Dublin City University

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 05:00:04 GMT

“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, exploring news spaces of possibility for ourselves and for others. These possibilities are not always appealing or exciting, however. Having too many options can be disorienting, innovating in unsustainable ways harmful, and spending time in virtual realities compete with less satisfying real encounters. And yet, engaging with the possible is, ultimately, what makes us human. Understanding how, when and why this is the case has been a topic of interest for the human and social sciences since their inception. And their exploration led to a variety of answers.”So argues our guest on the Brain for Business, Professor Vlad Glaveanu of Dublin City University.Vlad Glaveanu is Full Professor of psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin City University, and Professor at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN) that brings together academics, researchers and practitioners from centres, laboratories or societies dedicated to the study of human possibility, its antecedents, processes, limitations and consequences.Vlad’s work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, possibility, and societal challenges. He has edited a number of books, including the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017). Separately, he has authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020), Creativity: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021), and Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience (Bloomsbury, 2020), and authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and book chapters in these areas. In Vlad received the Berlyne Award from the APA Division 10 for outstanding early career contributions to the field of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts. You can find out more about the Possibility Studies Network at this link: https://possibilitystudies.net/Some of Vlad’s recent writings on possibility studies are available to access here:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/27538699221127580

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Series 2, Episode 13 - How can we manage and lead in an era of falsity? with Professor Kirk Plangger, King's Business School

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:00:00 GMT

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 be fake. Influencer endorsements can be fake. And “facts” are often fake, or “alternative.”"Yet what does all it mean for leaders and organisations? What role does social media play? And how can we start to see through the fog of fakes and falsity?Dr Kirk Plangger is a Reader (Associate Professor) of Marketing at King's Business School at King’s College London. He is a marketing management researcher specialising in consumer led digital marketing strategy.Most of Kirk's research explores how digital technologies mediate and change the buying process and how organisations should address these technologies. Currently, he is working on projects investigating shoppable advertising, the value of live in marketing, brand transparency, alternative reality marketing, social media influencers, falsity in marketing and advertising, and artificial intelligence in marketing. Kirk publishes regularly in leading academic journals and holds a number of editorial review board positions. His research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, UK Engineering and Physics Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), British Academy, UK Innovate, and the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).You can read Kirk’s thoughts on managing in an era of falsity here: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/177840001/Plangger_and_Campbell_Accepted_version_Managing_in_an_era_of_falsity_Business_Horizons.pdf

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Series 2, Episode 12 - The challenge of leading in a volatile world, with Professor John Katsos, American University of Sharjah

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:41:37 GMT

“Today we stand at the precipice of not one but three converging and potentially catastrophic long-term trends: climate change, globalization, and growing inequality. On their own, each of these makes the occasional crisis worse: We might see a more destructive hurricane, a more widespread financial meltdown, or longer or more violent civil unrest. Together, though, these trends magnify challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic, for example, was not just a health crisis but an economic and political one as well.”Not my words, but rather those of our guest today on the Brain for Business podcast, - Professor John Katsos.John E. Katsos is an associate professor of business law, business ethics, and social responsibility at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, and a research affiliate at Queen’s University Belfast. As a scholar, he has published dozens of academic and media articles, as well as reports for boards and international organizations. He has done fieldwork in Iraq, Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong and is considered one of the world’s leading researchers on business in crisis zones. As an educator, Katsos teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive students in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa how to manage more ethical and sustainable organizations for a better world.The HBR article referred to can be accessed here: https://hbr.org/2021/11/a-new-crisis-playbook-for-an-uncertain-world

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Series 2, Episode 11 - Facing up to the reality of food addiction, with Professor Ashley Gearhardt, University of Michigan

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:00:01 GMT

As of 2022, the World Health Organisation estimated that More than 1 billion people worldwide are obese – 650 million adults, 340 million adolescents and 39 million children. Given that there are approximately 8 billion people on the planet that is equivalent to 12 and a half percent of the global population. This situation is made all the worse by the seeming impossibility in many developed countries of avoiding cheap, processed which is high in calories, salt and sugar, while also being incredibly low in nutrition.At the same time, evidence linking obesity and substance use disorders continues to grow, which has led to increased interest in the role of an addictive process in problematic eating behavior. To find out more about the challenges of food addiction we were delighted to be joined by Professor Ashley Gearhardt of the University of Michigan.Ashley Gearhardt is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Science area at the University of Michigan. While working on her doctorate in clinical psychology at Yale University, Dr. Gearhardt became interested in the possibility that certain foods may be capable of triggering an addictive process. To explore this further, she developed the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) to operationalize addictive eating behaviors, which has been linked with more frequent binge eating episodes, an increased prevalence of obesity and patterns of neural activation implicated in other addictive behaviors. It has been cited over 800 times and translated into over ten foreign languages. Her areas of research also include investigating how food advertising activates reward systems to drive eating behavior and the development of food preferences and eating patterns in infants. She has published over 100 academic publications and her research has been featured on media outlets, such as ABC News, Good Morning America, the Today Show, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR.Further information on Ashley's research and the work of the Food and Addiction Science and Treatment Lab is available on their website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/fastlab/

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Series 2, Episode 10 - Exploring the benefits of mind-wandering, with Professor Jonathan Schooler, UC Santa Barbara

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 05:00:03 GMT

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 hours in a state of mind-wandering. Differences may depend on what we’re doing and difficulties with knowing when our minds are wandering: according to some reports, about half our mind-wandering episodes might slip past unnoticed!To find out more about mind-wandering, its impact and its benefits for creative thinking, we are joined by Professor Jonathan Schooler of UC Santa BarbaraAbout our guest...Jonathan Schooler is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara. His research on human cognition explores topics that intersect philosophy and psychology, such as how fluctuations in people’s awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. Professor Schooler is also interested in the science of science (meta-science) including understanding why effects sizes often decline over time, and how greater transparency in scientific reporting might address this issue. A former holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, he is a fellow of a variety of scientific organizations, on the editorial board of a number of psychology journals and the recipient of major grants from both the United States and Canadian governments as well as several private foundations. His research and comments are frequently featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Nature Magazine.The website for the Meta Lab at UC Santa Barbara is as follows: https://labs.psych.ucsb.edu/schooler/jonathan/The article referred to in the podcast can be accessed here: “When the Muses Strike: Creative Ideas of Physicists and Writers Routinely Occur During Mind Wandering” - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797618820626

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Series 2, Episode 9 - Is there a "psychology of innovation"? With Professor David Cropley, University of South Australia

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:00:01 GMT

One of our most popular episodes, this interview with Professor David Cropley was first released in January, 2021. Having finally succumbed to Covid and to mark the episode's second anniversary, we are issuing a special re-release. At its core, innovation is an innately human process involving individuals, teams and organisations striving to do things better and find better solutions. Consequently, while processes and technology are vital to innovation, just as crucial is an understanding of the psychology of innovation and the way that individuals, teams and leaders can become more creative and innovative. So what then is the psychology of innovation? In this episode we are joined by Professor David Cropley of the University of South Australia to explore the role that psychology plays in creativity and innovation. Professor David Cropley is Professor of Engineering Innovation at the University of South Australia in Adelaide and is an internationally recognised expert on creativity and innovation. His teaching interests focus on systems engineering and related concepts, and his research examines a range of aspects of creativity and innovation, both in the field of engineering, and more broadly. Professor Cropley is an author and editor of 8 books including The Ethics of Creativity, Creativity and Crime and, with his father, Emeritus Professor Arthur Cropley, The Psychology of Innovation in Organizations published by Cambridge University Press.

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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

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 05:00:01 GMT

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-tune their hard won business acumen. While once upon a time the top business schools tended to serve an almost exclusively male audience, thankfully these days business schools around the world make a significant effort to enhance the diversity of their student bodies and to be as inclusive as possible. Yet as our guests today have highlighted in recent research, in an odd twist of history, those same universities catering for an essentially male student body also provided special classes for their wives.To explore this further I am delighted to be joined by Allison Elias and Rolv Petter Amdam.Allison Elias is an assistant professor at University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Her research investigates historical and contemporary issues of gender and diversity in organizations, with a focus on the influence of social movements on corporate practices. Allison’s forthcoming book charts the trajectory of modern feminism at work illuminating the failures of equality-based frameworks and merit-based human resource management practices. Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam is a Professor of Business History at BI Norwegian Business School and was previously dean of BI’s executive programmes. His research and publications focus on a range of areas including • Business education and career development• International development of executive education* Internationalization procesess* Globalization and industrial clusters, focusing on the maritime industryThe article referred to is available here: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amle.2020.0129You can find out more about Allison and Rolv on their respective homepages:https://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty-research/directory/allison-eliashttps://www.bi.edu/about-bi/employees/department-of-strategy-and-entrepeneurship2/rolv-petter-storvik-amdam/

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Series 2, Episode 7 - Is it time to re-think behavioural economics? with Dr Jason Collins, University of Technology Sydney

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:00:04 GMT

In recent decades behavioural economics has emerged as a significant field in its own right. With a history going back almost a century and incorporating insights from Nobel prize winners such as Herbert Simon, Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler, behavioural economics seems to promise a meaningful alternative to the assumptions of rational human behaviour which underpin classical economics. Yet what really is behavioural economics? And more importantly what are the challenges which now appear likely to undermine behavioural economics seemingly inexorable progress rise to the top of the academic standings?To discuss this I am delighted to be joined by Dr Jason Collins of University of Technology Sydney.Dr Jason Collins is a Senior Lecturer in the Economics Discipline Group at University of Technology Sydney and Program Director for the Graduate Certificate and Master of Behavioural Economics.Jason joined UTS in January 2022 following a career in industry and government. Jason co-founded and led PwC Australia’s behavioural economics practice, and built and led data science and consumer insights teams at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). He has also worked as a lawyer, environmental campaigner, and an economic policy adviser with the Australian TreasuryJason holds a Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia in which his research focussed on the intersection of economics and evolutionary biology.Jason blogs regularly at Jason https://www.jasoncollins.blog/ and you can find out more about his thoughts on biases and behavioural economics in this article: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/biases-the-wrong-model/

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Series 2, Episode 6 - How can organisations better support transgender people in the workplace? With Professor Thekla Morgenroth, Purdue University

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:00:00 GMT

While in the Western world, gender has traditionally been viewed as binary and as following directly from biological sex, in recent years these views have started to change. Gender is now seen, at least by some, as less binary and more independent of sex. These changes are reflected in societal developments such as the growing support for transgender individuals and in new policies and practices, such as unisex bathrooms and, in some countries, the legal recognition of a third gender.To explore these questions further and to gain a better understanding of transgender issues we were joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Professor Thekla Morgenroth.Thekla Morgenroth is Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. Their research examines why and how people maintain social categories and hierarchies with a particular focus on the gender/sex binary and its consequences for women and members of the LGBTQ+ community.Some of Thekla’s current projects include research on opposition to policies and practices that challenge the gender/sex binary, the psychology of different feminist ideologies, the link between gender nonconformity and identity denial, and support for and opposition to the decriminalization of sex work.Thekla can be followed on Twitter (@TheMorgenroth) and you can find out more about Thekla’s research projects here: https://tmorgenr.wixsite.com/unicornlab?ga=2.204537744.1297948127.1668455134-498954844.1666261862

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Series 2, Episode 5 - How leaders rely on deceit and manipulation to further their personal agendas, with Professor David Hannah, Simon Fraser University

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:00:02 GMT

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 or professional lives. Yet despite repeated calls in recent years for greater authenticity in leadership, there are still leaders in who rely on the magician’s tools of deceit and manipulation to further their personal agendas. To better understand the way that magical processes are used and abused by leaders, we are joined by Professor David Hannah of Simon Fraser University.David R. Hannah is an award-winning researcher and teacher, and presently an Associate Professor of Management at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His research and teaching focuses on how individuals at work can cope effectively with the challenges and dilemmas of organizational life, and how they can help others to do so. The article referred to is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0007681322000994You can find out more about Dave and his research here: https://beedie.sfu.ca/profiles/DavidHannah

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Series 2, Episode 4 - How a fixation on time management almost broke me, with Professor Abbie Shipp, Texas Christian University

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:00:02 GMT

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 better than others. Perhaps they are just naturally good at managing their time, perhaps they are more organised, or perhaps they have simply spent more time analysing and planning what they are going to achieve in their day. However, as Professor Abbie Shipp of Texas Christian University highlights in this episode of the Brain for Business podcast, even experts in time management can develop an unhealthy fixation on time management leading to significant negative consequences for health and well-being. Yet some simple steps to reframe our perspective on time can make a real difference and help us to be happier, healthier and more productive.Dr. Abbie J. Shipp is the M. J. Neeley Professor and Department Chair of the Management & Leadership department at Texas Christian University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and studies how people think about and use time at work. She has published widely in premier journals in management and is currently an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Review, the top theory journal in her field. In addition to prior work at The Boeing Company and TV Guide, she has consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies on topics such as time management, engagement and retention, and leading change.You can find out more about Abbie’s work at her TCU page: https://www.neeley.tcu.edu/DirectoryProfile/Our-Team/afb81ade-ae80-4b40-8aa2-d5dc1d1153a9?pageAlias=Shipp-Abbie The HBR article referenced in the podcast can be accessed online: https://hbr.org/2021/06/my-fixation-on-time-management-almost-broke-me

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Series 2, Episode 3 - How can we better understand and manage unconscious bias? with Professor Jordan Axt, McGill University

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 04:00:04 GMT

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 to black lives matter and a whole range of other movements, there has in many ways been a global questioning of the role that bias, discrimination and the implicit associations that often underpin them can play in human interactions. To dig deep into these questions and find out more I am delighted to be joined by Jordan Axt, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University in Montreal.Jordan’s research explores how people form and express intergroup bias in attitudes and behavior. As part of this he investigates how such bias is presented both explicitly, when mental processes are more controlled, and implicitly, when mental processes are more automatic and uncontrolled. Jordan investigates these questions across many social domains, such as race, politics, religion, age, sexual orientation, and physical attractiveness. Through this work, he seeks to discover how intergroup bias can be best conceptualized, measured, and reduced.You can find out more about Jordan’s work at the following links:https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/jordan-axthttps://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

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Series 2, Episode 2 - Understanding the impact of magical beliefs, with Dr Emily Harris, The University of Melbourne

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:00:00 GMT

Magical beliefs such as belief in luck and precognition are universal, yet the nature and extent to which such beliefs are embraced varies significantly across cultures. While not often considered, the implications of for cross-cultural engagement, whether for work, holidays or other reasons, are potentially quite significant and can have a much bigger impact on how we understand other people and cultures than we might at first realise. In this episode of Brain for Business we were delighted to be joined by Dr Emily Harris of The University of Melbourne to discuss her recent research into this unique and fascinating area. Dr Emily Harris is an academic at the University of Melbourne in the field of social psychology. Dr Harris is broadly interested in how distal worldviews can shape our everyday experiences. She has conducted two large scale multinational studies assessing people’s beliefs about science and magic. In her other research life, Dr Harris studies how our worldviews about gender can shape our intimate relationships and body image. You can find out more about Emily's research at: https://www.dremilyaharris.com/

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Series 2, Episode 1 - How the Industrial Revolution sparked innovation and led to an "improvement mentality", with Dr Anton Howes

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 04:00:01 GMT

When we look back on history, the industrial revolution in Britain seems likely an historical inevitability. Following on from the Scottish Enlightenment and the growth of Britannia as a global empire and trading power, surely the industrial revolution as we now know it was uniquely and distinctly British thing. But is this really the case? To discuss this and other questions we are joined by Dr Anton Howes. Key amongst Anton's arguments is the belief that a unique "improvement mentality" drove the Industrial Revolution and resulted in the unique innovations of that time. We also explore the implications of this improvement mentality for businesses and organisations today.Dr Anton Howes is an innovation historian focusing on the development of innovation over the centuries and author of the Age of Invention newsletter.He is head of innovation research at The Entrepreneurs Network, a UK-based think tank focused on encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also honorary historian-in-residence at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, having written its latest history. Anton was previously a lecturer in Economic History at King's College London. Anton’s forthcoming book will examine why innovation accelerated in seventeenth and eighteenth century in Britain, which in turn led to the Industrial Revolution.You can find out more about Anton's work at: https://www.antonhowes.com/And sign up to his newsletter: https://antonhowes.substack.com/

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Series 1, Episode 50 - How COVID-19 has impacted workplace wellness and wellbeing, with Professor Thomas Roulet, University of Cambridge

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:00:03 GMT

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 how has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on wellness and well -being in the workplace? And what does this mean for individuals and organisations?For this, our 50th episode, we speak to Professor Thomas Roulet of the University of Cambridge to explore the trends in workplace wellness and wellbeing, and consider what the future might hold.Thomas Roulet is Associate Professor in Organisation Theory at the University of Cambridge and Deputy Director of the MBA Programme at Judge Business School. He is a Fellow in Sociology and Director of Studies in Management at Girton College, Cambridge, and Bye-Fellow and Co-Director of the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab at King’s CollegePrior to starting an academic career, Thomas worked in Debt Capital Markets on a trading floor in London, and for the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) in Paris.His work has appeared in a variety of scientific outlets in management, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management), ethics (Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society), and more broadly in social sciences and sociology His book The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations was the runner-up for the George Terry book award of the Academy of Management in 2021, an award recognising the book having made the most important contribution to the field of management. The Financial Times described the book as “a fascinating study of the social-media fuelled and fast-changing landscape of public opinion, and the possible ways in which that might be beneficial”.Thomas’ personal website is www.thomasroulet.com

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Series 1, Episode 49 - Serial killers or snakes in suits? The surprising truth about psychopaths, with Professor Cristina Crego, Longwood University

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:00:04 GMT

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 corridors of any workplace. But what are the key traits of psychopaths? What careers do they tend to pursue? And what should you do if you are afraid that your boss is a psychopath – or worse, that you might be one? To explore these and other questions further we are joined by leading expert in the science of psychopaths, Professor Cristina Crego, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Longwood University in Virginia. Dr. Cristina Crego earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Her research investigates both empirically and conceptually the importance of shifting the classification of personality disorders from the traditional categorical model to a dimensional approach. Dr. Crego also publishes on various diagnostic and assessment issues related to conceptualizing personality disorders, with a strong emphasis on utilizing the five factor model (FFM) of general personality structure. Some of Dr. Crego’s most recent work focuses on assessment and diagnostic issues related to the personality syndrome of Psychopathy.

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Series 1, Episode 48 – Suddenly Hybrid… the challenge of the modern meeting, with Professor Joseph Allen, University of Utah

Wed, 18 May 2022 04:00:01 GMT

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 inevitable. But how can we hybrid meetings work more effectively and be more engaging and productive?Joseph A. Allen is a Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Utah. Before he completed his doctorate (Ph. D.) in Organizational Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) in 2010, he received his Master of Arts degree in I/O Psychology at the UNCC in 2008 and his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the Brigham Young University in 2005. Professor Allen’s research focuses on three major areas of inquiry including the study of workplace meetings, organizational community engagement, and occupational safety and health, and he directs the Center for Meeting Effectiveness housed in the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. Professor Allen’s latest book – Suddenly Hybrid: managing the modern meeting – authored with Karin M Reed, was published in 2022 by Wiley.

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Series 1, Episode 47: Why do we forget history? And why do we remember it? with Professor Guy Beiner, Boston College

Wed, 04 May 2022 04:00:02 GMT

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 Flu” pandemic of 1918-1919. Yet with advent of COVID-19 we all became familiar with the history of that and other pandemics.But when we consider the forgetting of history, an even more important question emerges which has relevance for us all: why do we remember history? And what does this tell us about ourselves and how we view ourselves, our past and our present?Professor Guy Beiner is the Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies at Boston College where he specializes in the historical study of remembering and forgetting. Other interests include oral history, folklore, public history and heritage, historiography, terrorism and the so called ‘Spanish’ Influenza pandemic. His books on history, memory and forgetting in Ireland have won multiple international awards.Professor Beiner was previously professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and has held research fellowships at Trinity College Dublin, University of Notre Dame, Central European University, University of Oxford, as well being a former Burns Scholar at Boston College. Professor Beiner's most recent book – Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918-1919 – was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

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Series 1, Episode 46: How can we better incentivise human behaviour? With Jason Murphy

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 04:00:01 GMT

Regardless of whether we think of carrots or sticks, incentives influence and shape our behaviours. But what are incentives? Why are some incentives more important than others? And how can leaders and organisations make better use of incentives in their day-to-day work?Jason Murphy is an economist who has worked at the Australian Treasury, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Nauru, and has written for the Australian Financial Review. He writes regularly for News.com.au and Crikey, blogs and has a passion for bringing economics into the everyday world. Jason’s 2019 book Incentivology explored the mechanisms behind many spectacular failures and successes in our history, culture and everyday lives, and shows us how to use (or lose) incentives in our world at large. Mathew Dunckley, writing in Australia’s premier newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, asserted that 'Jason Murphy possesses that rare gift of originality of thought and, rarer still, the ability to write about it with clarity, wit and insight.' Jason blogs regularly at https://thomasthethinkengine.com/And can be followed on Twitter @jasemurphy

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Series 1, Episode 45: Why some teams succeed fast but fail slow, with Professor Louise Mors, Copenhagen Business School

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 04:00:00 GMT

In a recent paper published in the journal Research Policy, Professor Louise Mors of Copenhagen Business School, together with Professor David Waguespack of the University of Maryland explore the collaboration process undertaken by research teams. In particular they consider situations where teams are geographically dispersed and the challenges of coordination they face. A key, intriguing finding: dispersed teams tend to succeed fast, but fail slow!Louise Mors is a Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Copenhagen Business School and has also been on the faculty at the London Business School. She has a PhD from INSEAD in France and was a post-doc at the Sloan School at MIT. With a focus on large, global firms, Professor Mors' research examines the relationship between senior managers’ informal networks, organization design and performance. Recently her work has also examined the role of female directors on corporate boards. Professor Mors’ work has been published in the top strategy and management journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and the Academy of Management Journal. You can find out more about Louise’s research into teams here: https://hbr.org/2021/05/research-dispersed-teams-succeed-fast-fail-slowAnd on her CBS page: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-strategy-and-innovation/staff/lmsi

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Series 1, Episode 44: How strong leaders can undermine the political parties they serve, with Professor Eoin O’Malley, Dublin City University

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 05:00:00 GMT

While organisations can in some circumstances benefit from “strong leaders”, their longer lasting impact is not always so beneficial. By considering politics and political parties, Eoin O’Malley and his colleague Despina Alexiadou of Strathclyde University examine how they strong leaders can ultimately end up undermining the very parties they lead.Eoin O'Malley is an Associate Professor in political science at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. There he teaches politics and public policy and is the Director of the BA in Economics, Politics and Law.Eoin’s research specialism is Irish politics and particularly the position of the Taoiseach or Prime Minister and cabinet government in Ireland, though he also does work on the Irish party system, media coverage of Irish elections and public policy. His most recent research is on the office of Taoiseach (prime minister).Eoin has authored over forty articles in peer-reviewed journals, a textbook, Contemporary Ireland, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and co-edited four other books on Irish politics. His most recent book is Resilient Reporting: Media Coverage of Irish Elections since 1969. He is a former co-editor of Irish Political Studies and regular newspaper columnist and a frequent contributor to national debates.The article with Despina Alexiadou is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3933864

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Series 1, Episode 43: Why boredom is interesting, with Professor Erin Westgate, University of Florida

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 05:00:00 GMT

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 ask: What is boredom, why do we experience it, and what happens when we do? Dr. Erin Westgate is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida, where she studies boredom, interest, and why some thoughts are more engaging than others. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia in 2018, with intriguingly titled doctoral dissertation: “Why boredom is interesting”.Much of Erin’s research has been on the conditions under which people enjoy or do not enjoy their own thoughts. She has extended that work to the larger question of why people become bored, developing a new model of boredom that explains what boredom is, why we experience it, and what happens when we do. More information on Erin’s research is available on her website: https://www.erinwestgate.com/

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Series 1, Episode 42: How can entrepreneurial teams become more innovative? With Professor Linus Dahlander, ESMT

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 05:00:02 GMT

These days every organisation wants its teams to be more entrepreneurial and innovative. From holacracy to skunk-works and MBO to self-managing teams, a wide range of approaches have been tested over time. Yet what are the key variables that drive greater performance in entrepreneurial teams?In a recent paper published in the journal Organization Science, Professor Linus Dahlander and colleagues explored the way that entrepreneurial teams are organised and structured. By looking at two key variables – autonomy over who to work with or what to work on – Dahlander and colleagues identified some key approaches that leaders and organisations can use to help their teams be more creative and innovative.Linus Dahlander is a professor at the European School of Management and Technology - ESMT Berlin, Director of Research, and the holder of the Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation. He received his PhD in from Chalmers University of Technology and undertook post doctoral studies at Stanford University. He was previously an assistant professor and an Advanced Institute of Management Research Fellow with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School.Linus teaches in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, and networks, and is also a consultant and advisor to startups, large multinationals as well as government organizations on issues around innovation and networks. In 2017, Linus was recognized as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets & Quants.In his ongoing research Linus investigates how new ideas and innovations are developed in networks and communities. The ongoing projects use large-scale analysis of networks, which he integrates with a deeper appreciation for what content flows through networks. Linus seeks to study novel questions which can advance the academic literature, and which at the same time focus on issues that can affect how managers think about their business to help them make better decisions.Linus’ research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal among others. He served as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal in the 2013-2016 editorial team. The articles discussed in the interview can be accessed here:https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2021.1520(Boss, V., Dahlander, L., Ihl, C., & Jayaraman, R. (2021). Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas. Organization Science.)https://hbr.org/2021/12/when-autonomy-helps-team-performance-and-when-it-doesnt

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Series 1, Episode 41: How do you really know what a potential employer will be like? With Jason Sockin, University of Pennsylvania

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 05:00:04 GMT

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 we really know what it will be like to work for a potential employer? And when employers insist on strict non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements, what information can you really trust? In this episode of Brain for Business, Brain for Life we speak to Jason Sockin of the University of Pennsylvania to learn more about his research into the way that employers seek to manage the information flow, and how potential employees can try to gain a clear and genuine picture of life on the inside. Along the way we find out about the challenges of ratings websites and about the curious role played by “sock puppets”!Jason Sockin is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on how the internet and technology have fundamentally altered how firms and workers interact in today's labor market. He has worked as a researcher at Penn Wharton Budget Model, Glassdoor, The Congressional Budget Office, The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers under the Obama Administration, and The Federal Reserve Board of Governors. His research has been covered in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, and most recently in an Op-Ed for the Washington Post.To find out more visit Jason's website: https://sites.google.com/view/jasonsockin/home

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Series 1, Episode 40: How do major life events impact our overall wellbeing? with Dr Nathan Kettlewell, University of Technology Sydney

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 05:00:03 GMT

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 major positive life events? And equally what is the impact of not so positive life events? In Episode 40 of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast we explore these and other issues related to understand the impact of events on our positive and affective wellbeing.Dr Nathan Kettlewell is a Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Economics Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney and a research affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). As a researcher, Nathan’s main research interests are public policy, health economics and behavioural economics. Nathan is particularly interested in the formation of peoples' risk attitudes and what these attitudes mean for their life outcomes, understanding peoples' demand for private health insurance, and causal evaluation of government programs. Nathan’s website is as follows: https://sites.google.com/site/nrkettlewell/The article discussed is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319302204

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Series 1, Episode 39: Exploring the human imagination and the world of “Homo Imaginatus”, with Philip Ball

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:00:04 GMT

In a recent article in the online magazine Aeon, the renowned science writer, Philip Ball, considered the concept of imagination and coined the phrase “homo imaginatus”. Yet what really is imagination? How has it been perceived over the centuries? And what role does imagination play in human creativity?Philip is the author of many popular books on science, including works on the nature of water, pattern formation in the natural world, colour in art, the science of social and political philosophy, the cognition of music, and physics in Nazi Germany. He has written widely on the interactions between art and science, and has delivered lectures to scientific and general audiences at venues ranging from the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) to the NASA Ames Research Center, London's National Theatre and the London School of Economics.Formerly an editor at Nature magazine, Philip continues to write regularly for Nature. He has contributed to publications ranging from New Scientist to the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times and New Statesman. He is a contributing editor of Prospect magazine, and also a columnist for Chemistry World, Nature Materials, and the Italian science magazine Sapere. He has broadcast on many occasions on radio and TV, and is a presenter of "Science Stories" on BBC Radio 4. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, sits on the editorial board of Chemistry World and Interdiscipinary Science Reviews, and is a board member of the RESOLV network on solvation science at the Ruhr University of Bochum.Philip has a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol.Philip’s Aeon article on imagination and Homo Imaginatus can be accessed here: https://aeon.co/essays/imagination-isnt-the-icing-on-the-cake-of-human-cognition

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Series 1, Episode 38: Understanding the impact of narcissistic leaders, With Professor Jon Gruda, Maynooth University

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:01:33 GMT

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 necessarily a bad thing?Jon Gruda is an Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Maynooth University in Ireland. He has previously held appointments at emlyon Business School (France) where he completed his Ph.D. in Management from 2012 to 2017, together with a joint Doctorate in Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany).Professor Gruda’s primarily focuses on relational leadership, dark leadership traits, personality and anxiety. Recently, he was selected as one of 373 young scholars out of 20,000 applicants worldwide to attend the Lindau Nobel Prize Laureates Meeting in Economic Sciences.

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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

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:00:02 GMT

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 podcast we speak to Professor Kaylee Hackney. In recent research she and colleagues have explored the impact of the miscarriage on the workplace and the challenges faced by both women and their employers during what is inevitably a very difficult time for those involved.Kaylee Hackney is an Assistant Professor at the Baylor University Hankamer School of Business in Waco, Texas. She studies employee mistreatment, stress, and well-being with a focus on pregnancy in the workplace. Her research has been published in leading academic publications such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Group & Organization Management, and Organizational Psychology Review. Kaylee teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior at Baylor University.You can find out more about Kaylee’s research and listen to the latest episodes of her podcast on her website: www.kayleehackney.com

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Series 1, Episode 36: Surely Political Correctness is not actually good for creativity? With Professor Jack Goncalo, University of Illinos at Urbana-Champaign.

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 05:00:03 GMT

In a 2015 article, Professor Jack Goncalo and colleagues explored the impact of “political correctness” on creativity in work groups. At the time the findings – that political correctness is actually good for creativity - were so controversial that the article was rejected numerous times before finally being published in the leading journal in the field.So why – and how – is political correctness actually good for creativity? We explore this and more with Professor Goncalo.Article link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0001839214563975Jack Goncalo is Professor of Business Administration and the Robert and Helen P. Seass Faculty Fellow at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Cornell University ILR School where he was the Proskauer Professor.Professor Goncalo’s research is focused on individual and team creativity, the evaluation of new ideas and more recently, the dark side of engaging in creative work. His research spanning the fields of Management and Psychology has been published in leading academic journals and been featured in numerous media outlets such as CNN, Time Magazine, The New York Times and Forbes Magazine.

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Series 1, Episode 35: So... what really did happen when we all started working remotely? with Jaime Teevan and Longqi Yang, Microsoft

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 05:00:00 GMT

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 trial and error. Yet for many around the world, in March 2020 remote working became a necessity, imposed both by governments and employers.In a recent report published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01196-4), a team from Microsoft explored data from over 60,000 Microsoft employees to analyse and understand the organisational impact of this shift. To explore this further we are joined by two of the report’s authors, Jaime Teevan and Longqi Yang, both of Microsoft.Jaime Teevan is a corporate vice president and chief scientist at Microsoft. She is an advocate for finding smarter ways for people to make the most of their time, and believes in the positive impact that breaks and recovery have on productivity. Jaime leads Microsoft’s future of work initiative which brings researchers from Microsoft, LinkedIn and GitHub together to study how the pandemic has changed the way we work. Previously she was the Technical Advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI, where she led the Productivity team.Longqi Yang is a Senior Applied Researcher at Microsoft’s Office of Applied Research. His research centers around interactive machine learning systems and their applications on future of work, productivity, and wellbeing. He is currently leading applied research initiatives at Microsoft to understand the impact of remote and hybrid work and build AI systems to enhance new work practices.

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Series 1, Episode 34: Do teams and groups discriminate differently to individuals? With Professor Vessela Daskalova, University College Dublin

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:00:01 GMT

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 happen in teams and groups. In this episode of Brain for Business, Brain for Life, behavioural economist Professor Vessela Daskalova of University College Dublin, tells us about her own experimental research into role of social identity and the “in-group/out-group” bias in group decision making.Professor Vessela Daskalova is an Assistant Professor of economics at University College Dublin, a Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy, and Associate Faculty at Toulouse School of Economics. As a researcher in the areas of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and Political Economy, Professor Daskalova focuses on the areas of discrimination, social identity, and bounded rationality. As part of this, much of her research is dedicated to trying to better understand decision making in both individual and strategic/collective decision making situations.For more information visit: www.vesseladaskalova.com

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Series 1, Episode 33: The unique challenges of leadership in policing, with Dr Victoria Herrington, Australian Institute of Police Management

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:00:02 GMT

Policing organisations and the challenges they face are in many ways unique. So what are the implications for leadership and for those in leadership roles in policing?Dr Victoria Herrington is Director of Knowledge at the Australian Institute of Police Management in Sydney. Vicki has spent a career in applied, academic and neo-academic organisations across the UK and Australia and is an active researcher in the field of criminology with a deep commitment to interdisciplinarity.

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Series 1, Episode 32: Why are we so afraid of the menopause? With Professor Jo Brewis, Open University Business School

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:56:23 GMT

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 left unsupported by both their employers and society more broadly. Yet this should not be case: simple steps can help to make a huge difference for those experiencing this entirely natural and normal process.Jo Brewis is Professor of People and Organisations in The Faculty of Business & Law at the Open University Business School.Her research interests fall into two broad categories. First is the intersection between the body, sexuality, gender, emotions, identity, organizing and organizations, including publications on menopause transition and women’s economic participation and methodological considerations in organization studies deploying queer theory. The second is academic practices in organization studies research, including publications on research ethics and peer review.In addition to this, Jo is the co-author of the 2017 UK government report The effects of menopause transition on women's economic participation in the UK. As an independent panel member for Menopause Friendly Accreditation amongst other activities, she works to further the menopause in the workplace agenda.

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Series 1, Episode 31: What is the real impact of over-work and a long-hours culture?, with Dr Frank Pega, World Health Organisation

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 04:00:03 GMT

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 longer-term consequences and impacts of consistently working long hours are devastating for health and well-being. In this episode of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast we talk to Dr Frank Pega of the World Health Organization (WHO) who outlines the shocking findings of research he has undertaken with a global team of experts into the effects of over-work and working long hours, including increased risk of heart attack and stroke The article referred to is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412021002208Dr Frank Pega is a Technical Officer in the Environment, Climate Change and Health Department at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. As an epidemiologist and health economist, he is passionate about producing innovative and high-quality evidence and policy that can be used to improve workers’ health. He is WHO’s responsible officer for the WHO/International Labour Organization joint estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury, which includes coordinating contributions from 200 individual experts in 35 countries. Before re-joining WHO in 2015, Dr Pega worked for 15 years in health research and policy roles in international organisations, national governments and universities in the Americas, Europe and the Western Pacific. He holds a PhD and postdoctoral fellowship in Epidemiology and Health Economics from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published 45 articles in leading academic journals and received several international awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University.

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Series 1, Episode 30: What will happen to productivity when we all return to the office? With Professor Wlad Rivkin, Trinity Business School

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:00:02 GMT

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, travel and associated stress? In a recent article, Professor Wlad Rivkin and colleagues explored exactly this and challenged the assumption that a return to “normal” work will be beneficial.Dr. Wladislaw (Wlad) Rivkin is an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior at Trinity Business School. His research focuses on how self-regulation affects employees’ mental health, well-being, and effectiveness. It has been published in high impact academic journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.Wlad has a track record as a PI of several research projects funded by national governments, Industry, and the European Union. These projects focused on developing and evaluating organizational interventions to facilitate employee effectiveness involving leadership training and work design. He is currently the PI of the Diversity Innovation Support Scheme for SMEs project funded by the European Union’s H2020 program (https://dinnos-h2020.com/)

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Series 1, Episode 29: A masterclass in resilience and overcoming adversity, with Sacha Dekker, Vice President of Global Go-To-Market Enablement, HubSpot

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 04:00:02 GMT

Originally from The Netherlands, Sacha had an accomplished career as learning & development professional spanning the energy and technology sectors for organisations including Shell, LinkedIn and Oracle. Yet in 2015, suddenly and completely unexpectedly, everything changed. Since that time Sacha has grappled with disability and overcome significant adversity. Along the way she has become a rights campaigner and re-established her career, recently being appointed as Vice President of Global Go-To-Market Enablement for HubSpot.

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Series 1, Episode 28: Is there a dark side to entrepreneurial failure? With Professor Jeffrey Overall, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 04:00:03 GMT

In modern mythology, most particularly that of Silicon Valley, failure and entrepreneurship go hand-in-hand. But is that always the case? And is there a “dark side” to entrepreneurial failure?Dr. Jeffrey Overall is an associate professor of entrepreneurship and strategy in the Faculty of Business and Information Technology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He has held professorships at Nipissing University, Ryerson University, and Leibniz Universität Hannover.He has over 20 years of experience working directly with entrepreneurs within start-ups, incubators, and SMEs across various sectors and countries. He is the President and co-founded of the Global Institute for Conscious Economics – a platform that promotes the connection between consciousness (mindfulness) and economics. Professor Overall actively researches in three areas of management: (a) conscious business, (b) entrepreneurship, and; (c) philosophy of management, and has written extensively on questions related to organisational and entrepreneurial failure.

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Series 1, Episode 27: Exploring the challenges of Whistleblowing, with Professor Kate Kenny, NUI Galway

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 04:00:03 GMT

Over recent years many countries and organisations have introduced legislation and policies to support whisteblowers, yet the challenges remain. Although a vital function of any organisation, whistleblowing can have significant personal and professional impacts. In this episode we speak to Professor Kate Kenny of NUI Galway about her research into whistleblowing and discuss both the challenges and opportunities.Kate Kenny is Professor of Business and Society at National University of Ireland Galway. She has held research fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University and Cambridge's Judge Business School. Her research focuses on organization studies, specifically political and psychosocial approaches. Kate's recent book ‘Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory’ (Harvard University Press, 2019) examines whistleblowing with a focus on the financial sector.Her book ‘The Whistleblowing Guide’ (Wiley, 2019) with Professors Wim Vandekerckhove and Professor Marianna Fotaki is aimed at practicing managers, coaches and others working in this space.Watch a short video on the findings from research into best practice in Speak-Up/ Whistleblowing arrangements, mentioned in the podcast.Short pieces on Covid-19, healthcare and whistleblowing, featured in the The Conversation and RTE BrainstormReports, videos and research from Professor Kenny are all on www.whistleblowingimpact.org

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Series 1, Episode 26: Why do organisations fail? With Professor Charles McMillan, York University

Wed, 19 May 2021 04:00:03 GMT

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 the reasons why organisations fail and considered, in particular, three levels at which organisational failure can occur. We discuss these further with Professor McMillan in this episode of Brain for Business, Brain for Life.Professor Charles J McMillan, Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at York University in Toronto. Charles is the author of nine books and monographs related to international business and global management and has written and lectured extensively on globalization, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, strategic management, corporate governance, science policy, knowledge management and diffusion, and management development.Active in Public Affairs, Professor McMillan has also served as Senior Policy Advisor to Canadian Prime Ministers, working on trade agreements, regional development, Pacific Rim strategies, energy policy, science and technology strategies and Centers of Excellence, privatization of crown corporations, regional development, and foreign investment legislation. He now also consults widely to governments, multinationals, and international organizations around the world.The article referred to is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charles-Mcmillan/publication/319421301_Crossing_the_Chasm_and_Over_the_Abyss_Perspectives_on_Organizational_Failure/links/5a5fa61a458515b437798050/Crossing-the-Chasm-and-Over-the-Abyss-Perspectives-on-Organizational-Failure.pdf

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Series 1, Episode 25: Brain for Business, Brain for Life First Anniversary Special Edition, With Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin

Wed, 05 May 2021 04:00:00 GMT

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 normal, everyday lives has been prevented from happening by Covid and associated restrictions.To reflect on the past year and everything that has happened in the world of the brain and behavioural sciences we are re-joined by Professor of Experimental Brain Research, Trinity Institute of Neurosciences (TCIN), Professor Shane O’Mara. Professor O’Mara also provides insights into recent research from Trinity College Dublin into the effects of “Long Covid”.Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research (Personal Chair) at Trinity College, Dublin - the University of Dublin. He is a Principal Investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. His research explores the brain systems supporting learning, memory, and cognition, and also the brain systems affected by stress and depression, and he has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in these areas. Professor O'Mara is a graduate of the National University of Ireland - Galway, and of the University of Oxford (DPhil). He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (USA), and an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy.Professor O'Mara's new book is 'In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration' (WW Norton, 2020). He loves to walk wherever and whenever he can, with walking in cities a firm favourite. He particularly wants to see urban design incorporate ease of walking and movement for all into our daily lives.www.shaneomara.com

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Series 1, Episode 24: The evolution of "productive organisations", with Professor Francisco Brahm, London Business School

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 04:00:00 GMT

In a recent article discussing the evolution of organisations, Professor Francisco Brahm and colleagues draw upon cultural evolution theory to explain their growth. But what does this tell us about how organisations have evolved and what makes them effective and productive?Francisco is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. His research focuses on two key aspects of organisations. First, their nature: the essential forces that explain their origin and functioning. And second, the interchange between the formal structures and the informal forces within firms such and how these impact performance.

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Series 1, Episode 23: What does serendipity have to do with innovation? with Dr Wendy Ross, London Metropolitan University

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 04:00:03 GMT

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. Trial & error, failure and even serendipity all play a crucial role in the innovation process and recognising the value of these is more important than ever.Dr Wendy Ross is a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University. She is particularly interested in serendipity and its role in creativity and innovation. Her research explores how we can best foster these at both an individual and an organisational level. She has published research on collaborative creativity as well as serendipity and creativity. She is an invited member of several international networks and has been asked to talk about her research in Europe and the US. She is the co-editor of two collections on Serendipity, The Art of Serendipity and Serendipity Science, and secretary of the Serendipity Society as well as its conference chair. In 2021 she was awarded the Frank X Barron prize by Division 10 of the American Psychological Association. She is currently working on serendipity and innovation in the business environment as well as examining small moments of “accident” and how we can turn them to our advantage.

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Series 1, Episode 22: Understanding radicalisation and de-radicalisation, with Robert Oerell

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 05:00:02 GMT

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 we better support de-radicalisation?Based in Stockholm, Robert Örell is an internationally sought-after trainer, speaker, workshop facilitator and expert in the field of radicalisation, disengagement, and intervention.Robert Örell has two decades of experience in the field of disengagement and exit work and has led Exit programs in Sweden and in the USA.Since 2011, Robert has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) and he currently works as an independent expert, consultant, and trainer in the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism field. His recent work focuses on setting up exit programs, online counseling in exit work, and advising on policy guidelines and recommendations.

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Series 1, Episode 21: Increasing diversity in the technology sector through behavioural science, with Nurit Nobel, Impactually

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 05:00:03 GMT

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 actually have to help that make that change a reality? Perhaps the answer lies in behavioural science and the application of approaches from that field to help drive greater change.Nurit Nobel is co-founder and CEO of Impactually, a management consultancy which applies behavioural insights to create business and societal impact. In addition, Nurit is currently pursuing a PhD at Stockholm School of Economics examining human decision-making and behaviour change.You can read more of Nurit’s thoughts on how behavioural science can drive greater diversity on her website: https://impactually.se/increasing-diversity-in-recruiting-backed-by-behavioral-science/

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Series 1, Episode 20: Is there a better way to deal with organisational BS? With Professor Ian McCarthy, Simon Fraser University

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:00:04 GMT

In a recent article Professor Ian McCarthy and colleagues argue that “Many organizations are drowning in a flood of corporate bullshit, and this is particularly true of organizations in trouble, whose managers tend to make up stuff on the fly and with little regard for future consequences.” So what are the implications of this? And is there a better way to deal with organisational bullshit?Ian McCarthy is the the W.J. VanDusen Professor of Innovation and Operations Management at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, and a professor at the Luiss Research Center in Leadership, Innovation and Organisation, in Rome, Italy.Professor McCarthy’s article – now one of the most impactful papers published in 2020 – can be accessed here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339114145_Confronting_indifference_toward_truth_Dealing_with_workplace_bullshit

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Series 1, Episode 19: Exploring neuroscience for kids, with Professor Eric Chudler, University of Washington

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:00:04 GMT

While the topic of neuroscience might seem daunting, in this episode we are joined by Professor Eric Chudler of the University of Washington who believes that even young children can be introduced to the wonders of the brain and start to appreciate how amazing and intriguing our brains really are.Professor Eric Chudler is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle and is Executive Director and Education Director at the Center for Neurotechnology also at the University of Washington.In addition to this, Professor Chudler is the founder of the “Neuroscience for Kids” project and regularly appears in the media discussing various elements of neuroscience and its relevance for both children and adults.

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Series 1, Episode 18: How do influencers "influence"? With Sara Kennedy, Uplift Marketing and Trinity College Dublin

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:00:01 GMT

In the modern era of social media it seems as though we are surrounded by influencers all trying to grab our attention. In this episode we explore some of the science behind how influencers actually "influence" us , and along the way try to make sense of the madness that is "virtual influencers"!Sara Kennedy is the Founder of Uplift Marketing and an award-winning marketing professional and an expert in content marketing, social media marketing and digital performance marketing. She is an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in Social Media Marketing and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin looking at key aspects of Influencer Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. In her spare time, Sara runs the Irish Wedding Blog and is an expert in all things wedding-related!https://upliftmarketing.ie/

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Series 1, Episode 17: Is there a “psychology of innovation”? with Professor David Cropley, University of South Australia

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 06:00:01 GMT

At its core, innovation is an innately human process involving individuals, teams and organisations striving to do things better and find better solutions. Consequently, while processes and technology are vital to innovation, just as crucial is an understanding of the psychology of innovation and the way that individuals, teams and leaders can become more creative and innovative. So what then is the psychology of innovation? In this episode we are joined by Professor David Cropley of the University of South Australia to explore the role that psychology plays in creativity and innovation.Professor David Cropley is Professor of Engineering Innovation at the University of South Australia in Adelaide and is an internationally recognised expert on creativity and innovation. His teaching interests focus on systems engineering and related concepts, and his research examines a range of aspects of creativity and innovation, both in the field of engineering, and more broadly. Professor Cropley is an author and editor of 8 books including The Ethics of Creativity, Creativity and Crime and, with his father, Emeritus Professor Arthur Cropley, The Psychology of Innovation in Organizations published by Cambridge University Press.

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Series 1, Episode 16: What's the story with the multigenerational workforce? with Ciara Kelly, Futureneerz

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:00:00 GMT

More and more, leaders and organisations are having to grapple with the reality of a “multi-generational” workforce, with three or more generations working together side-by-side. But what challenges – and more importantly what opportunities – does this create?Ciara Kelly of Futureneerz has over 24 years business and leadership experience in marketing, strategic planning, graduate programme development, millennial engagement & team leadership. Before establishing Futureneerz in 2017, Ciara spent many years working in senior marketing and business development roles with organisations such as Irish Distillers-Pernod Ricard and Coca Cola Bottlers.As an executive coach and certified Gallup Strengths Coach, in recent years Ciara has focused on empowering leaders & their teams. A key aspect of that is supporting leaders and organisations as they grapple with the challenge of the multi-generational work force.You can find out more about Ciara at her website: www.futureneerz.comMore detail on the research on the multi-generational workforce is available online:https://www.gallup.com/workplace/238073/millennials-work-live.aspxhttps://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/millennialsurvey.html

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Series 1, Episode 15: How can we take a more evidence-based approach to Learning & Development? With Professor Claire Gubbins, Dublin City University

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:00:03 GMT

With resources stretched and organisations under more pressure than ever, the need for Learning & Development interventions to have the greatest possible impact and relevance has gained greater importance. So what does the evidence say?In this episode we are joined by Professor Claire Gubbins of Dublin City University to discuss how practitioners can draw on the research and evidence in order to take a more evidence-based approach to Learning & Development. Professor Claire Gubbins is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour & HRM at Dublin City University and director of DCU’s Executive MBA Programme. She is an Associate Editor for Human Resource Development Quarterly and Deputy Director of the LINK Research Institute (Knowledge and Learning).Claire is a Member of the CIPD, the US Academy of Management, the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) and the University Forum for HRD (UFHRD). She also works closely with the Irish Institute of Training & Development on a number of research projects.Awards for her work are numerous and include a Fulbright Scholarship to Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Gubbin's latest book - Learning & Development in Organisations: Strategy, evidence and practice - is available now and is published in association with the Irish Institute of Training and Development: http://www.successstore.com/sampler-learning-development-in-organisations.html

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Series 1, Episode 14: Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century? With Professor John Quiggin, The University of Queensland

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:02:36 GMT

In a recent article in The Conversation, Professor John Quiggin of the University of Queensland asserted that the Covid-19 pandemic might just have helped us to stumble on the biggest productivity increase of the century. But is this really the case? And if so, what are the longer term implications for societies, most particularly when the threat of the pandemic recedes?John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a Professor and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and a Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.His work has been acknowledged globally, and in October 2020 Professor Quiggin was named the 20th most influential economist in the world.A prolific author and blogger, Professor Quiggin's most recent book, Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, was published by Princeton University Press in April 2019.The original article in The Conversation is available here: https://theconversation.com/have-we-just-stumbled-on-the-biggest-productivity-increase-of-the-century-145104Professor Quiggin blogs regularly at https://johnquiggin.com/

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Series 1, Episode 13: Why accents matter… particularly when it comes to the court room. With Dr Lara Frumkin, The Open University

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 08:00:01 GMT

While we might like to think that all accents are regarded equally, this is far from the case. Research has found that even in supposedly neutral and objective settings such as court rooms, accents can play a crucial role in defining our understanding of and engagement with a person with significant impacts on the outcome of criminal proceedings.Dr Lara Frumkin is a Senior Lecturer at The Open University’s School of Psychology. She is a chartered psychologist, fellow of the Higher Education Academy, associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and international affiliate of the American Psychological Association. She has previously worked in government and non-profit organisations as well as in academia. After receiving her academic training, Dr Frumkin worked at the American Psychological Association, focusing on policy and informing the public about psychological research and practice. She subsequently worked at the US Department of Justice linking psychology to relevant aspects of justice, national security and crime. A community and social psychologist by background Dr Frumkin’s current research is centred around applying psychological principles to law enforcement and security services. This includes detecting deception, the impact of extralegal factors on case outcome, how lawyers prepare and interact with clients with mental health difficulties, and community responses to terrorism and extremism. More recently, Dr Frumkin has started to look at the role of human interaction on cybersecurity.

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Series 1, Episode 12: What really motivates us to buy local? With Professor Barry Quinn, Ulster University Business School

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMT

In this episode we speak to Professor Barry Quinn of Ulster University Business School and explore the motivations for our buying decisions. In particular, we examine some of the key drivers that lead us to buy local when the online options can be so appealing.Barry Quinn is Professor of Retail Marketing at the Ulster University Business School. His areas of expertise include SME growth and innovation in various sectors, including food and retail. He has published widely in journals such as Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, International Marketing Review, and European Journal of Marketing. He has worked closely with SMEs on several European projects that have looked at policy support and business development needs.

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Series 1, Episode 11: Is exercise really so good for the brain? With Professor John Ratey, Harvard Medical School

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:00:01 GMT

In this episode we speak to eminent psychiatrist and physician, Professor John Ratey of Harvard Medical School to discuss his decades-long research into the cognitive and psychological benefits of exercise for people of all ages. Professor Ratey is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 11 books published in 17 languages, including the groundbreaking ADD-ADHD “Driven to Distraction” series with Ned Hallowell, MD. With the publication of "Spark - The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain," Professor Ratey established himself as one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain-fitness connection, something he has continued with his more recent book Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization: Eat Fat, Run Free, Be Social, and Follow Evolution's Other Rules for Total Health and Well-Being.Keep up to date with Professor Ratey’s research on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JohnRateyMD

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Series 1, Episode 10: How do we deal with biases? And what do they mean for us? With Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:00:03 GMT

We hear alot about bias and biases, but how do we and should we deal with them? And what do they mean for us - both as individuals and leader?In this - our 10th episode - I am joined again by neuroscientist Professor Shane O'Mara of Trinity College Dublin to further explore some of the implications of cognitive biases for leadersShane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research (Personal Chair) at Trinity College, Dublin - the University of Dublin. He is a Principal Investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. His research explores the brain systems supporting learning, memory, and cognition, and also the brain systems affected by stress and depression, and he has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in these areas. Professor O'Mara is a graduate of the National University of Ireland - Galway, and of the University of Oxford (DPhil). He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (USA), and an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy.Professor O'Mara's new book is 'In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration' (WW Norton, 2020). He loves to walk wherever and whenever he can, with walking in cities a firm favourite. He particularly wants to see urban design incorporate ease of walking and movement for all into our daily lives.www.shaneomara.com

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Series 1, Episode 9: What is the value and impact of behavioural research for business and organisations? with Claire O'Rourke of Dentsu Consult

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:00:01 GMT

The Covid-19 crisis has had a significant impact on consumer behaviour but what will this mean longer term? In this episode I am joined by Claire O’Rourke, Research Lead at Dentsu Consult in Dublin to examine how behavioural research can help businesses and leaders understand key market trends and, as a consequence, better connect with their clients and customers. Claire O'Rourke is an experienced dual researcher with qualitative and quantitative research experience and a background in psychology. She has worked with a range of public and private sector clients and always seeks to explore the motivations and triggers, to look at predicting rather than just describing behaviour. Claire was previously an Associate Director in Amárach Research and is a published researcher with peer-reviewed publications in numerous academic journals.

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Series 1, Episode 8: Rethinking Organisational Change, with Jo Kearney of Facebook

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 07:00:04 GMT

When leaders think of organisational change they almost inevitably think of linear models of change and human behaviour. Yet as Jo Kearney, Leader of Learning Strategy for Facebook Global Operations by drawing on new approaches such as Organizational Network Analysis, more effective ways of leading and implementing change are possible.Jo Kearney leads learning strategy and change for Facebook’s global operations. Prior to this, Jo was responsible for internal and client talent and change transformations for Accenture for over 15 years in a global capacity.Jo has over 15 years’ experience in leading strategic change and people-related research and projects across various industries including the high tech, luxury retail and government sectors. Jo has led over 30 global people projects, working extensively across Europe, the Middle East, Australia and the USA. She has acted in a leadership and learning advisory capacity to senior public and private sector officials. Jo has also guest-lectured in learning, organizational innovation and agile change across academic institutions as well as acting as a regular speaker and facilitator in numerous Fortune 500 companies.Jo sits on the board of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy and is a certified Gallup faculty and positive psychology coach. Jo is also pursuing further studies in Organizational Psychology at Harvard University. Jo is passionate about the power of storytelling, design thinking and harnessing networks for organizational change. Jo is also a qualified nutritional coach and interested in all aspects of nutrition as medicine.

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Series 1, Episode 7: Decision making under conditions of radical uncertainty, with Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, The Open University

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:00:05 GMT

Do uncertain times call for different approaches to decision making? In this episode of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast we speak to Professor Mark Fenton-O’Creevy of the Open University Business School and explore aspects of decision making under conditions of radical uncertainty.Mark Fenton-O'Creevy is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at The Open University Business School . He is an educator, researcher and consultant with three current primary areas of interest.1) He studies how managers and professionals make decisions in conditions of deep uncertainty. This includes a long standing interest in the work, behaviour and performance of professional traders. and the role of emotion in financial decision-making for traders, investors and everyday financial decision making.2) He studies the ways in which business and management practices develop and are transformed or corrupted within businesses and organisations. Particular interests include the transfer of HR practices between different national settings and the professional practices of traders in investment banks.3) He has a profound interest in the relationship between formal and informal learning. He spent five years running a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning the Centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning (http://cetl.open.ac.uk). His book on "Learning in Landscapes of Practice" with Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Chris Kubiak and Steve Hutchinson, builds on Etienne's prior work on communities of practice and the work of the OU centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning.He acts as a consultant to a range of organisations with a particular focus on change management and international HR management and on supporting and improving decision-making processes.Mark has acted as an academic advisor to a range of BBC documentaries: The Money Programme; 'Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS'; 'The Love of Money'; Escape from the Boardroom; and (with Adrian Furnham) created the 'Big Money Test for the BBC's LabUK and the Watchdog programme, and 'Right on the Money'.Specialties: Practice-Based Learning, Pedagogy, Distance Learning, International Management, Financial Trading, Investment Psychology, Management of Change Mark blogs regularly at https://emotionalfinance.net/

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Series 1, Episode 6: How new forms of mobility will change the way we live and work, with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:00:00 GMT

What will the future hold for cities, work and mobility? Will the car continue to dominate the urban landscape or are new ways of doing things possible? And if new ways are possible, what will that mean for the way we live and work?In this episode of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast we talk to Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, Chief Visionary Officer of Piaggio Fast Forward and discuss how new forms of mobility will change the way we live and work.About Jeffrey...Founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Jeffrey Schnapp holds the Pescosolido Chair in Romance Literatures and Comparative Literature, and is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. His most recent books include The Electric Information Age Book([Princeton Architectural Press 2012]); The Library Beyond the Book (Harvard University Press 2014), a publication co-authored with Matthew Battles that explores future scenarios for libraries in the digital age; Digital Humanities (Egea 2015), an essay on cultural heritage management issues recently published in Italian in the Meet the Media Guru series; Forthcoming in late 2016 is an extended essay on mobility and the 130 year history of the Piaggio Group, entitled FuturPiaggio (Rizzoli). He is the editor of the metaLABprojects series with MIT Press.After three years of service as co-founder and CEO at Piaggio Fast Forward, Schnapp assumed the new position of Chief Visionary Officer effective June 2018. Piaggio Fast Forward is a subsidiary of the Milan-based Piaggio Group, known throughout the world for iconic vehicles like the Vespa and iconic brands like Aprilia and Moto Guzzi. Piaggio Fast Forward’s first generation of robotic vehicles has received worldwide coverage on television, radio, and the www. Its mobile-carrier gita has also won numerous design and engineering awards, including selection as one of the 2018 Beazley Best Designs of the Year at the Design Museum (London) and a 2020 Red Dot award for “Best of the Best” in innovative new products. gita was launched on the US market in late 2019 and is undergoing further testing at the UK’s UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University.For more information visit https://mygita.com/

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Series 1, Episode 5: Why walking is good for your heart and your mind, with Dr Eric Soehngen, Walkolution

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:40:00 GMT

We all know that walking can help keep us physically fit, but what about the cognitive, emotional and psychological benefits of walking? In this episode we speak to Dr Eric Soehngen, cardiologist and CEO of Walkolution to find out why walking is not only good for your heart but also for your mind.Eric Söhngen, M.D. is the founder and CEO of Germany-based treadmill desk manufacturer Walkolution. He is a board-certified senior medical doctor and holds a PhD in stem cell physiology. He is the author of the book "Death by Sitting - Why we need a movement revolution.” As a mountaineer, he enjoys movement outside the office on the high mountains of our world.Find out more at www.walkolution.com

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Series 1, Episode 4: The challenge and opportunity of women's entrepreneurship, with Professor Colette Henry, Dundalk IT

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:04:33 GMT

Being an entrepreneur is challenging at the best of times and statistics show that many startups fail. This situation is all the more difficult for women seeking to develop startups and new business ventures as for women to be successful entrepreneurs they need incredible resilience, motivation and the right mindset, and must grapple with systemic bias and perceptions of gender roles.In this episode I speak to Professor Colette Henry of Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland, and UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, to explore the challenge and opportunity of women's entrepreneurship.Professor Colette Henry, MBA, PhD, FRSA, FAcSS is Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland, and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Her previous roles include Norbrook Professor of Business & Enterprise at the Royal Veterinary College, London, and President of the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE). Colette is the founder and Editor of the CABS-listed International Journal of Gender & Entrepreneurship (IJGE). She has published 14 books and over 50 journal articles in the areas of entrepreneurship education & training, women’s enterprise, social enterprise, creative industries and veterinary business. She is a Visiting Fellow at CIMR, Birkbeck, London, and holds fellowships of the Royal Society and the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship. In 2015, Colette was awarded the Diana International Research Trailblazer award for her work on female entrepreneurship. In 2017, she was honoured with the Sten K Johnson European Entrepreneurship Education Award (the only Irish recipient to date), and in 2018, was awarded a fellowship of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences.

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Series 1, Episode 3: Are we more convinced by stories? with Dr Zoe Walkington, The Open University

Wed, 20 May 2020 21:13:08 GMT

In this episode we are joined by psychologist Dr Zoe Walkington to consider whether we - as humans - find stories more convincing, and if so why this might be the case. Along the way, Zoe shares insights into the power of Harry Potter and the joys of reading novels, and even lets us in on her secret crush!Dr Zoë Walkington is Senior Lecturer in School of Psychology and Counselling and Deputy Director for Learning in the Centre for Policing Research and Learning, both at The Open University. One of Zoe's key areas of research interest is stories or narratives, and there are two main strands to this research. First, in terms of the impacts that reading can have on individuals psychologically (for example, how reading initiatives can help with the development of empathy). Second, how story can be used to 'create' or inform individuals identity. Beyond that, much of Zoe's work focuses on Forensic Psychology and related areas and she regularly provides training to detectives on the psychology of suspect interviewing.

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Series 1, Episode 2: What's the big deal with "evidence-based management"? With Anna Connolly

Wed, 20 May 2020 21:03:56 GMT

In this episode we are joined by Anna Connolly, management consultant and Chair of the Psychological Society of Ireland's Division of Work & Organisation Psychology and ask: what really is the big deal with "evidence-based management"?Anna Connolly is a Chartered Work and Organisational Psychologist and founder of Work Frontiers, a Business Psychology consultancy. Work Frontiers applies the science of human behaviour to help people thrive in the workplace. Anna uses coaching, learning solutions, and organisational design to improve team performance, develop leaders and facilitate change. Anna has 13 years management experience in the ICT industry with Ericsson and is the current Chair of the Division of Work and Organisational Psychology in Ireland.Anna can be contacted at: anna@workfrontiers.iehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/connollyanna/www.workfrontiers.ieAnna recommends the following sources on evidence-based management:www.cebma.org – Centre for Evidence Based ManagementSilver, N. (2012). The signal and the noise: Why so many predictions fail—but some don't. London: Penguin. pp. 286, 690.Bauer, A., Eisenbeis, R. A., Waggoner, D. F., & Zha, T. (2003). "Forecast evaluation with cross-sectional data: The blue chip surveys." Economic Review. Volume 88. Number 2. 17-32 Pages.Servan-Schreiber, E., Wolfers, J., Pennock, D. M., & Galebach, B. (2004). "Prediction markets: Does money matter?." Electronic Markets. Volume 14. Number 3. pp. 243-251 Armstrong, J. S. (2001). Principles of forecasting: A handbook for researchers and practitioners. Chapter Combining Forecasts. New York: Kluwer Academic.Yaniv, I., & Choshen-Hillel, S. (2011). "Exploiting the wisdom of others to make better decisions: Suspending judgment reduces egocentrism and increases accuracy." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Volume 25. Number 5. pp.427-434.Lewis, M. (2003). Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game. New York: W. W. Norton.Grove, W. M. (2005). "Clinical versus statistical prediction." Journal of Clinical Psychology. Volume 61. Number 10. pp.1233-1243.Ayres, I. (2007). Super crunchers. New York: Bantam Books.Antman, E. M., J Lau, J., Kupelnick, B., Mosteller, F., & Chalmers, T. C. (1992). "A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and recommendations of clinical experts." JAMA. Volume 268. Number 2. pp. 240-248.McNees, S. K. (1990). "The role of judgment in macroeconomic forecasting accuracy." International Journal of Forecasting. Volume 6. Number 3. pp.287-299.

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Series 1, Episode 1: Are cognitive bias, learning and leadership a natural fit? with Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin

Wed, 20 May 2020 20:57:04 GMT

In this episode I speak to neuroscientist Professor Shane O'Mara of Trinity College Dublin and look at some of key issues related to cognitive bias, learning and organisations.Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research (Personal Chair) at Trinity College, Dublin - the University of Dublin. He is a Principal Investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. His research explores the brain systems supporting learning, memory, and cognition, and also the brain systems affected by stress and depression, and he has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in these areas. Professor O'Mara is a graduate of the National University of Ireland - Galway, and of the University of Oxford (DPhil). He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (USA), and an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy.Professor O'Mara's new book is 'In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration' (WW Norton, 2020). He loves to walk wherever and whenever he can, with walking in cities a firm favourite. He particularly wants to see urban design incorporate ease of walking and movement for all into our daily lives.www.shaneomara.com

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