On emotional contagion, the culture nobody writes about and what riders and elephants have to do with it. Jonathan Haidt described the mind as a rider sitting on an elephant. The rider is our rational, planning self and the elephant everything emotional and instinctive. It’s the elephant that is stronger. Chip and Dan Heath later borrowed the image in Switch to explain why so much change struggles. You can give the rider a perfectly good map but if the elephant isn’t persuade

This is part of a series of ten posts exploring the questions behind the Sticky Change Sense Check, a free tool for leaders navigating organisational change. If you haven't read our introduction: When change energy goes unmanaged: the human cost, that's a good place to start. Think about the last time you walked into a room and immediately sensed the mood before a word had been spoken. Even without you consciously knowing this, you read the room, almost instantly and you adju

A fascinating talk by Amy cuddy about how to feel and look more confident in the moment, when you most need it.