Scientists have discovered decorated artifacts from Tanzania and South Africa, dating back between 40,000 and 75,000 years, indicating that humans developed the capacity for symbolic thought much earlier than previously believed. These...

Discover the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which provides crucial protections during criminal trials and safeguards individual property rights. Understand the concepts of grand jury indictment, double jeopardy,...

Explore the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which safeguards citizens' rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. Understand the requirement of probable cause and the need for a search warrant issued by a judge. Learn...

If you have a poor-performing member of your team, how do you turn around their poor performance? I'll give you a 6-step process to performance turnaround process.

It may be that nobody ever makes a decision based solely on the facts. But they do need the facts and the reasons to justify their decision. Maybe to the people around them. Or perhaps just for themselves. As a result, we need to use...

This is not an academic video, where I describe study after study and cite all the research papers. But I will tell you why Emotional Intelligence is important at work and give you an indication of the range of positive benefits of...

Daniel Goleman brought emotional intelligence to the public’s attention with his massive 1995 best seller, ‘Emotional Intelligence’. He followed this up with two further books that deserve to be read by all serious managers: • Working...

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Group Think is the cause of many, many bad decisions. It happens when the group prioritizes agreement and harmony over examining tricky issues and uncomfortable opinions. And groupthink can lead to all-out disasters. Do, when you're...

Harold Geneen was a successful business leader that transformed an ailing business, ITT, into a Data-driven Charismatic Organization. Under his leadership, it grew and grew.

In this video I want to discuss five common types of bias we find in feedback – and what you can do to minimize each of these forms of bias in feedback.

Emotional Intelligence is an appealing model with a lot of ‘face validity’. That is, subjectively people see it as covering the concept it purports to measure. However, there is also a lot of academic criticism of the concept. So, in...

Can you really tell what someone is thinking, just by watching their eyes? That’s sort of the promise of NLP’s eye-accessing cues. So, WTF? Let’s answer the question, what the fact.

One challenge in managing virtual teams is… Challenge. That is, that we fail to adequately challenge one-another’s thinking, because the distance and cultural differences in a remote team make it even more uncomfortable or difficult than...

It feels like everyone knows how important Feedback is at work. But do we really understand it? In this short video, I'll kick off our course on feedback by giving a very clear answer to the questions: 'what is feedback?' and 'why does...

There is a lot of jargon around performance feedback - and a lot of different types of performance feedback. Let's unpick them all.

Kingston University engineers are designing a robotic vehicle for future Mars missions that will search for evidence of life and water on the Red Planet. The solar-powered lander is equipped with a special drill to penetrate the rocky...

Discover the truth about Tyrannosaurus Rex at London's Natural History Museum. This groundbreaking exhibition challenges the popular belief that T Rex was a fearsome predator, presenting evidence that suggests it was a scavenger. With a...

Scientists at Queen Mary's School of Medicine have discovered that a combination of six different drugs can effectively lower cholesterol levels, reduce blood pressure, and prevent cardiovascular disease. This groundbreaking research...

In a groundbreaking procedure, doctors at a New York hospital performed the first ever in vivo gene therapy in the brain for Parkinson's disease. By infusing viral particles containing a human gene, the procedure aims to relieve tremors...

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One percent of the world’s population has to live with Rheumatoid Arthritis. This cause of this debilitating condition is unknown, but it’s thought to be an autoimmune disease.

Five experts explore the notion of experimental verification in science, beginning with Karl Popper's famous "falsification criterion". Featured are: Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study), Scott Tremaine (Institute for...

In 1518 in Strasbourg, (in modern-day France) a woman stepped outside her house into the street and began dancing. She didn't smile, there was no music, and she apparently was unable to stop until she collapsed with weariness. Thus began...