March 2026

Amara’s Law is an observation made by futurologist Roy Amara, stating that people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies while underestimating their long-term effects. AI’s near-term impact on leadership development is being overestimated because the hard parts of leadership development are not about information or insight. They are behavioural, contextual, relational, and […]

It wasn’t until the early 2000s that researchers discovered that contrary to popular belief, the brain at rest was not idle or inactive, but in fact was engaged in very valuable processing work. Being bored, sitting doing nothing can actually be a very productive time. Dr. Marcus E. Raichle and colleagues revealed that the brain

For decades the general belief is that we perceive the world, process it in our brain and then act on that in what we do. This is wrong. The physical body is not merely a vehicle for the brain; it is an active participant in every thought, judgment, and decision we make. Weighty decision One

Most of us are, in one way or another, a bit screwed up. We carry doubts, sensitivities, compensations, old hurts, insecurities, and odd little inner bargains with ourselves. We compare, overthink, overwork, overprepare, and occasionally overreact. Yet this untidy psychological mix is not just a liability. In many high performers, it is part of the

Dr Dominic Irvine I help leaders perform under pressure because I’ve studied it academically, lived it physically, and applied it organisationally. In a company struggling with costs and competitive pressures, it was noticeable that in the recent round of redundancies ALL the people with PhDs in the top 50 senior people in the business lost

Sometimes, a particularly bad memory can come out of the blue and be a bit of a gut punch. It knocks your thinking sideways and deflates your self confidence. It’s not a great place to be and can leave you feeling, frankly, a bit crap. Whatever the trigger for the memory, here are five techniques