The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has just published its response to the new UK Industrial Strategy and both BIT and I are pretty positive about it. Let me tell you why and then, let me tell you what’s still wrong …
UK Industrial Strategy, November 2017 Read more »
In January 2017, Oxfam released a report claiming that 8 people between them now own half of the world’s wealth (last year it was 62). If this is true, then how did the other 7.5 billion people let this happen? …
Executive Function in the Individual and the Organisation Successful organisations like Google and Facebook allow their employees an opportunity to experiment and pursue their own projects. Many public sector organisations also allow their employees opportunity for personal development. Why does …
Human Operating System 3 – Executive Function Read more »
12 Policies for Theresa May Brexit currently dominates UK politics but other issues should not be neglected. This article from July 2016 is as relevant now as it was when Theresa May gave her first speech after becoming PM. From …
Twelve Radical Policies Read more »
How we manage the demands on us has been a pre-occupation since the day I came to the realisation that a lot of what runs through my own mind can be explained in terms of what psychologists call the management …
Human Operating System 2 – Managing Demands Read more »
The Fragmentation of Experience I was sitting quietly yesterday, just letting my mind run free as I frequently do, and was distracted by a single unusual dinging sound. I checked my phone, I checked my laptop, I checked my desktop …
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Consciousness, freedom and moral responsibility Answering the question ‘Are we free?’ at the level of society suggests that the big multi-nationals have assumed control over many aspects of our lives (see: “What is control?”). Answering the same question at the …
What is the relationship between the world and our mental representation of it? What is the representation that we use to model the world, and run through in our minds alternative futures enabling us to anticipate and predict what might …
Representations of Reality Enable Control – Part 1 Read more »
In order to control you have to know something about what you are controlling. You have to know the levers you can pull and have some understanding of the effects. You need some more or less accurate ‘mental map’ or …
Knowledge is Power to Control Read more »
Control is a huge subject spanning from self-control through to state control. It is also fundamental to wellbeing, particularly when needs are not being met. Control is such a familiar concept that a lot of our thinking about it is …