Insights
Reflections on people, culture and the future of work.
Organizational Culture•Sep 01
A Culture of Passivity: How Well-Meaning Managers Undermine Work Habits in an Organization
Organizational decision-making•Sep 01
The Cassandra Effect: Why Don't We Believe People Who Are Right?
Employee Development•Jul 10
People Development in Times of Change: From Metacognition to Prospective Memory
AI and learning•Jul 10
The problem is not that AI learns from AI. The problem is that people stop learning from reality.
Metacognition•May 20
Metacognition is not a special type of intelligence, but the ability to verify our own thinking
Future of Work•May 25
From Gallup to Gartner: The Future of Work is Not About Sentiment, But About Job Design
Career•Apr 29
Is downshifting an option or a utopia?
HR•Apr 18
HR made people happy. Who will save the organizations now?
Behavioral Analysis•Apr 07
The world is not destroyed by psychopaths, but by human stupidity, stubbornness, and the conviction that we are right.
HR•Oct 15
Why do HR professionals ignore behavioral insights and how can “nudging” improve organizational performance?
Culture•Oct 07
Collecting Pokémon: From Children's Play to Loneliness and Depression. Or How to Catch 'Em All.
Psychology•Dec 8
Are you happy?
Psychology, Leadership, Culture•Apr 17
Being a fraud isn't okay, but if a person thinks they are a fraud, that's even worse. Imposter syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Depression•Sep 18
Depression
Psychology•Jun 15
Egocentric Anchoring
Psychology, defense mechanisms•Dec 11
Externalization, Rationalization, and Projection as Defense Mechanisms
Emotional Intelligence•Sep 26
Emotionally Intelligent Leaders: Do They (Not) Exist?
Psychology•May 21
Here's Why We'll Never Be Happy
Neuroscience•Nov 16
Habituation
Psychology, Work, HR•Jan 4
Honduras and how (not) to end up there, or why you should play at work?
Leadership, Psychology, Development•Feb 5
Inspirational quotes. Why are they easy to relate to, but hard to follow?
Sleep, Brain, Psychology•Apr 20
Brainwashing (and why sleep is important for it)
Psychology, Cognition•May 1
Is the Google Effect the New Dunning-Kruger?
Corporate Culture•May 1
When Corporate Culture Is Neither Corporate Nor Culture
Nudging•Aug 12
How to Be and Remain Subtle in the Workplace? By Nudging!
Corporate Culture•Nov 22
How the Road to Hellish Corporate Culture is Paved with Good Intentions?
Motivation, HR, Psychology•Jan 22
How to Motivate People and Why Benefits Alone Aren't Enough
Psychology, Ethics, HR•Apr 9
How We (Perhaps Unintentionally) Support Unethical Behavior
Attention•Sep 16
How We Became Slaves to the Attention Economy
Cognition•Apr 18
Cognitive Distortions
HR, Motivation, Cognition•Feb 29
Cognitive Abilities, Metacognition, Cognitive Motivation, and Employee Retention
Psychology, Youth•May 21
How well are we adapting? And where do young people fit in?
Leadership, HR, Psychology•Dec 3
How Dark is the Dark Triad (Interview)?
Psychology, Corporate, Psychopathy•Jan 5
Corporate Psychopaths or Psychopathy in Companies
Human Resources•Dec 28
End of the year… what (should) we do with people?
Soft skills•Feb 10
Critical and Design Thinking
Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Psyc•Feb 10
Critical and Design Thinking
Growth Culture•May 4
Growth Culture as Corporate Culture
Business Psychology•Jun 29
Lies and Trust in the Business Environment
Locus of Control•Apr 19
Locus of Control
Turnover•Nov 23
Maslow and Turnover Prediction
HR•Feb 6
Micromanagement vs. Mentoring
Cognitive Abilities•Mar 19
Can some people predict the future? Why do phrases like “his mind went blank” or “a black cloud fell over him” make sense? What does our subconscious do to us? And how can behavioral psychologists help?
L&D•Nov 8
Can LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Help Us with Employee Learning and Development (L&D)?
Emotional Intelligence•Jan 20
The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence
Psychology•Dec 22
(Un)delayed gratification: A new predictor of (un)success?
Change Management•Mar 13
(Mis)managing Change
Psychometrics•Oct 10
Ocean’s 11 (5)
Psychology, Expectations, Disappointment•Jul 28
Expectations vs. Disappointments
Dreamers•May 31
Are The Dreamers Leaving?
Psychopathology•Aug 18
Uncovering Psychopathology
Psychology, Decisions, LSP•Mar 2
Business Decision-Making: Fears, Cognition, Social Factors, Game Theory, and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.
Psychometry•Mar 20
Benefits of Psychometric Testing and How DeeP Research Can Help
AI, Cognition, Tech•Oct 2
The AI Problem: Are We Losing More Than We Gain?
Psychological Safety•May 3
Psychological Safety
Psychology, Relationships, Communication•May 6
Psychological Games
Emotions•Feb 12
Disappointment. Sadness. Spite.
HR•Mar 25
Developing Employee Soft Skills and Neuroplasticity
ICT•Jun 2
Robotaxis, what next?
Self-actualization•Nov 2
Self-Actualization and Why It Matters
Self-awareness•Jun 11
Self-Awareness
Psychology•Jul 4
Brain Synchronization
Psychology•Jun 2
Ice Cream, Health, and Cognitive Dissonance
Psychology•Jan 30
A heart isn't defibrillated like in the movies, or from defibrillation to rumination...
Human Resources•Jul 13
State of the Global Workplace 2023 Report
HR, Surveys, Psychometrics•May 23
What do pre-election polls and corporate climate surveys have in common?
Employee Engagement•Jun 8
What Do We Know About Employee Engagement? – A Behavioral Perspective
Cognitive Biases•Apr 1
Sunk Cost Fallacy and Defensive Attribution
Lego Serious Play•Jan 27
Everything you wanted to know about the LEGO® Serious Play® method, but were afraid to ask.
OKR•Jun 12
All You Wanted to Know About OKRs But Were Afraid to Ask :-) (A Behavioral Scientist's View on Performance Management Systems)
Attention, Perception•Oct 2
Just because someone stares at us doesn't mean they see us
Employee Development•Nov 15
Should We Develop Skills in Our Employees?
L&D, HR, Development•Mar 6
The Importance of (Proper) Employee Learning & Development
Psychology, social media•Apr 7
We all have our own mountain to climb. What are your three greatest strengths? The Barnum effect and social networks.
Generation Z•Feb 28
Generation Z and Gauss
Generation Z•Dec 13
Hiring Generation Z
Cognition•Mar 26
Why would someone put a dead salmon in an MRI and then expose it to external stimuli? The Depth of Cognition
Leadership•Oct 5
Why is it difficult to be a leader today?
Psychology•Jun 4
Why is it Hard to Stick to a Decision?
Human Meanness, Integrity, Psychology•Mar 11
Why Are People Mean?
Psychology of learning•Feb 16
The Zeigarnik Effect. Cognitive Dissonance. Learning and Development.
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