Human beings have long realised that no one person can know everything, but a group can. Transactive memory is the term psychologists use to describe how people in close relationships or teams develop a shared memory system. Modern businesses have an unprecedented opportunity to leverage machine cognition alongside human talent. Large language models and other AI tools can serve as powerful extensions of the team’s collective intelligence. Who is your best partner for transactive memory? Who knows who knows what?

What if you woke up and everything had changed? Not by magic, but by a shift in clarity, action, and perspective from now. This is the essence of the Miracle Question, a deceptively simple tool from Positive Psychology and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) that helps people imagine a future where their current problems have quietly disappeared. In that near future, personally imagined world, everything is right and it feels right. Like waking up from a stressful dream and realising you are where you are meant to be.Why does this work? Here comes the modern science evidence, but much of this has been known since ancient times and can be seen in many belief systems!

Scaling a business is one of the most complex transitions a founder will ever face. It’s no longer about proving an idea, it’s about sustaining growth, building resilience, and leading effectively. Many business owners find themselves caught in a cycle of decision fatigue, struggling with delegation, and wondering how to scale without losing control.This is where an unconventional yet highly effective perspective, one grounded in aviation strategy and organisational psychology, can make all the difference.

Despite decades of leadership research, organisations still struggle with low engagement, distrust, and lack of alignment. Why? Because we focus on developing individual leaders rather than cultivating strong relationships within teams. This is the equivalent of learning techniques without understanding the underlying principle foundations.You may want to stop trying to fix the people and instead fix the environment around them, the parts that connect us to each other

Corporate leadership on a bad day, (everyday for some) is built on a contradiction over leadership and the reality of emotional relationships. Corporations are legal entities but they are not people, and yet how might they be in an AI future? Some have justified Theory X, mistrusting of employees commitment to do good work, and yet Theory Y organisations exist. Organisational psychology theories exist to explain all aspects of work and its success or otherwise. In my own recent research into how military leaders transition into civilian leadership positions there was quite a bit of dissonance about leadership and what it means. That is why I want to dig a little deeper into the beating heart of leadership, to perhaps re-emphasise the relationship that exists between people as they lead and follow in organisations, between sales and customers. Who trusts who and why? And the unwritten psychological contract. While I am going to be quite critical, I will conclude with some case study examples of optimism that are also successful brands.

In today’s fast-paced world, we often mistake busyness and presentee-ism for progress, checking off tasks, attending endless meetings, and chasing vanity metrics. There may be some political advantages to be found in all of these but we should not be aware of this too. When does more activity really mean more success? Drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, and leadership, this article explores why doing the right things is far more important than doing things right. From Seneca’s wisdom to cognitive bias research, we uncover how strategic clarity, not sheer effort, drives real achievement. Are you truly progressing, or just running in place? Read on to find out. how to course correct yourself and your team. Pic: Taking a moment to think with Sherlock Holmes in a recent visit to Baker Streeet.