Left-brain, right-brain profiles. Learning styles. The Mozart effect. The lizard brain. These ideas shape training programmes, coaching frameworks, and leadership development worldwide. A well-referenced 2021 practitioner article examines nine of the most popular brain-based claims and finds that most of them have no credible neuroscientific support whatsoever.
AI is already handling routine management. A 2023 opinion piece argues the assumption that human leadership is safe from automation deserves serious challenge, and that business education has not yet reckoned with what that means.
Workplace wellbeing programmes are widely offered and widely trusted. A 2024 study of 46,000 workers finds that participants report mental health outcomes no better than those who received nothing at all.
The case for large CEO bonuses rests on the assumption that they drive company performance. A 2023 systematic review of four decades of evidence finds that assumption is largely unsupported, and that nobody had thought to check it systematically until now.
Game-based assessments promise to make hiring more engaging while measuring the same things as traditional tests. A 2024 study finds the validity case is reasonable, but the engagement promise is not: applicants actually reacted more negatively to the game format, especially those without much gaming experience.
A 2024 debate in organisational psychology asks whether selection tests are being systematically undervalued due to how their effectiveness is calculated. One side says yes, and proposes a correction that makes the numbers look considerably more impressive. The other side agrees with the conclusion but argues the correction answers the wrong question.
Psychology has been studying wisdom for decades, mostly on its own terms. A 2023 paper by Robert Sternberg argues the field has been missing something: two and a half thousand years of philosophical thinking about exactly this question.
What does the average surgeon, teacher, or software engineer look like in terms of personality? A 2024 study mapping 263 occupations across 68,000 people provides the most comprehensive answer yet and finds that the details matter more than the headlines.
Growth Mindset Interventions: What Does the Evidence Actually Show? Growth mindset programs have spread through classrooms worldwide on the promise of large gains in student achievement. A rigorous 2022 meta-analysis of 97,000 students suggests the evidence behind that promise is far thinner than advertised.Growth mindset programs have spread through classrooms worldwide on the promise of large gains in student achievement. A rigorous 2022 meta-analysis of 97,000 students suggests the evidence behind that promise is far thinner than advertised.
A recent study in Singapore has looked at how people recover from mental health setbacks (Kuek, Raeburn, Chow, & Wand, 2022). There is much research in the country on understanding mental health and information on the ability to diagnose mental health issues. However, the road back to recovery is far less understood.
