On 30th December, Nicholas Kristof published his annual review in the New York Times. Whilst acknowledging that 2023 was "terrible", he also dubbed it "maybe the best yet for humanity", an assertion many would find...
The history of the last 15 years reads like a script for the ultimate disaster movie. The near collapse of the international banking system led many governments to introduce austerity measures which undermined the state’s capacity to protect...
Figures released on 19 January 2022 reveal that the number of people being treated for anxiety and depression in the UK is now as high as it was twelve months ago. No Christmas lockdown to blame this time, but, despite lots of...
Back in the mists of time (2008, actually) when most believed that a banking crisis was the worst thing that could happen, we became aware that the prospect of personal catastrophe affects people in very different ways.
We are all aware of the huge personal, professional and psychological cost of the pandemic. The damage to individuals, now and in the longer-term, cannot be underestimated. But in our work as business psychologists, we have also...
In a crisis, people pull together. Competition and disagreements are swept away, replaced by collaboration to get things done. We often hear, ‘If only we could always operate the way we did in the crisis.’
