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Jumping Overboard In Panic
The needless death’s of passengers on the Costa Concordia, that is currently listing on her side off the Italian coast, is not the result of people being injured while on board. It is the result of leadership and direction on board. Read More >>
The Tragedy Of Life Lost
In our experience and observation incidents occur when you least expect it. Everything’s fine, your expectations are high and the anticipation for something going wrong is pretty low. In fact, there’s no reason why anything should go wrong. But it does. Read More >>
Dad’s In Distress
As we come to the end of the year I feel the weight of working Dad’s more than ever. This year I’ve spoken to hundred’s of men who work away from home in many far-flung corners of the globe. On oil rigs in Angola, in boardroom’s in Houston, lecture theatres in Calgary, supply vessels at sea and among containers at port. Read More >>
Happiness – Another View
At BTB we are huge fans of TED – ‘Ideas worth spreading’ it allows all of us to learn online from some of the most creative thinkers alive today. TED provides a platform for us to be challenged, to learn, to agree and disagree and, as a result, grow. In 2011 we have been tested almost daily on everything we know and believe in. Through it all we believe that optimism should and must play a foundational role in everything we do and how we do it. Read More >>
Excellence in Higher Degree Research - Social Science, Business & Humanities Reading and learning to read: morphological processing in children and adults
Dr. Beyersmann, ‘Lisi’, has had a blinder of a year. With a fresh Ph.D. under her belt and an award for excellence in higher degree research we thought it would be nice to highlight one of the quieter members of our team. Read More >>
The Performing Team
The "Performing" team has learned the skills of resilience, of self-planning, of self recovery. They're the ones who allow the leader to change the way the leader leads. The leader then becomes the enabler -- the one who makes sure that these people have what they need but doesn't really have to tell them where to go. The team is telling itself where to go. It's not a leaderless team. It's the team itself that has gained the ability to visualize its direction, to plan, to recover from challenges, to be mature. That's what a high performance team has. Read More >>
The Economist: The view from the top, and bottom. Bosses think their firms are caring. Their minions disagree.
Nearly half of those in blind-obedience companies said they had observed unethical behaviour in the previous year, compared with around a quarter in the other sorts of firm. Yet only a quarter of those in the blind-obedience firms said they were likely to blow the whistle, compared with over 90% in self-governing firms. Read More >>
What impact does optimism bias, confirmation bias, or illusory superiority basis have on safety behaviour and coaching?
Just like all measurable biological and behavioral attributes, people vary in terms of their degree of optimism vs. pessimism. However there is a long recognized bias towards optimism. On average, we tend to view the world through the metaphorical rose-tinted glasses. This is just one of the many biases that affect how we process and remember information. Read More >>
Psychologically Speaking – ‘The Over Inflated Ego’
Dr. Stewart Hase remains one of the most entertaining and challenging speakers you are likely to encounter. He likes to challenge all of us here at BTB all of the time – more often than not he’s on the money. The issue to ego and the role it play’s within all of us has never been better described than it is here. Read More >>
Office Workers Reap Healthy Spin-offs From Efficient Building Design
You would think it makes sense wouldn’t you. A healthy workplace would lead to a healthy workforce. But for too many organisations the failure to recognise that the working environment plays a huge role in their inability to have a work force that is productive, comfortable in their own skin (that is confident in their place within the organisation) and willing to further the betterment of the company. Read More >>
