Professor and organisational scientist @Cambridge_Uni @KingsCollege | Author #WellbeingIntelligence https://xitter.cf/t.co/TPZIVDf1yZ
Cambridge, England
Joined April 2010
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Wellbeing Intelligence: Mental health as a skill - have a look at my recent @TEDTalks youtu.be/RHJkWo8iIv8?is=VtZF…
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God and Jason Arday are together right now, at peace, watching Richard Dawkins attempt to remain relevant.
New review paper on the dark side of organisational learning
What if organizations become better at doing the wrong things?
In our new Academy of Management Annals paper, we explore how learning itself can reinforce rigidity, amplify errors, and create self-reinforcing cycles of misfortune, a phenomenon we capture as learning-based organizational zemblanity.
The key questions for organizations: How can they recognize when learning is taking them in the wrong direction, and how can they break out of these cycles?
Looking forward to your thoughts and any examples you’ve encountered!
journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.…
#zemblanity #serendipity #misfortune
@AOMConnect @thomroulet @AOM_STR @AOM_TIM @AOM_OMT
Thomas Roulet retweeted
What if organizations become better at doing the wrong things?
In our new Academy of Management Annals paper, we explore how learning itself can reinforce rigidity, amplify errors, and create self-reinforcing cycles of misfortune, a phenomenon we capture as learning-based organizational zemblanity.
The key questions for organizations: How can they recognize when learning is taking them in the wrong direction, and how can they break out of these cycles?
Looking forward to your thoughts and any examples you’ve encountered!
journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.…
#zemblanity #serendipity #misfortune
@AOMConnect @thomroulet @AOM_STR @AOM_TIM @AOM_OMT
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Three years later :
Working Behind the Scenes with the Enemy: The Tensions in Collaboration Between Contested Firms and NGOs to Produce Ethically Substantive CSR Communication
link.springer.com/article/10…
#businessethics
Well done @PaulineAle for presenting your work on firm-ngo collaboration for csr communication in front of the challenging @CambridgeJBS crowd!
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We're looking for the Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government.
If you have an outstanding academic record, the ability to inspire outstanding people, and the imagination and ambition to shape this new major academic institution, we want to hear from you👇
bit.ly/4cSFn47
Authors are pretty good at anticipating what part of their work will be more influential
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My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics.
10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada.
Link: economist.com/britain/2026/0…
And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
Who benefits the most from AI: senior employees or junior ones?
Senior lawyers according to this new experiment on patent drafting. Junior people struggle to build their expertise. nber.org/system/files/workin…
Thanks for having us!
Great start to the morning having Kiran Bhatti and @thomroulet talking all about Wellbeing Intelligence at the beautiful Glasshouse.
This event is part of our @KingsELab one-month residential incubator programme #SPARK fast-tracking early-stage ventures to investment readiness.
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Great start to the morning having Kiran Bhatti and @thomroulet talking all about Wellbeing Intelligence at the beautiful Glasshouse.
This event is part of our @KingsELab one-month residential incubator programme #SPARK fast-tracking early-stage ventures to investment readiness.
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Very interesting post from Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on the rise of AI writing in economics. He got a large token budget from Pangram to analyse a large number of preprints.
One of the interesting results of his analysis, which aligns with my experience, is that AI writing is harder for humans to read. It’s not just the overused AI expressions. AI outputs are written in very good English but they are not optimised for human psychology, including our limited attention and memory spans.
paulgp.substack.com/p/how-do…
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Hier, aux côtés du Président de la République Emmanuel Macron et de Sa Majesté le Roi pour l’inauguration de l’exposition de la Tapisserie de Bayeux au British Museum.
Depuis quelques heures, elle est présentée au Royaume-Uni dans le cadre d’un prêt exceptionnel de la France au British Museum. C’est la première fois de son histoire qu’elle quitte la Normandie et traverse la Manche.
Ce trésor est un symbole fort de l’histoire et des liens d’amitié qui unissent la France et le Royaume-Uni depuis près d’un millénaire. 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧
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When I wrote the first draft of what would ultimately become THE SERENDIPITY MINDSET, the @FinancialTimes Bracken Prize competition was a wonderful way to gain momentum and visibility.
If you're under 35 and are working on a business book, it might be worth a look. The winner receives £15,000, while the two finalists receive £2,000 each, and they get to connect with publishers and agents. The deadline is 30 September 2026.
If you have questions or are looking for a proposal template, let me know.
Kudos to @andrewtghill and the FT team for supporting young authors to turn their ideas into books! brackenprize.live.ft.com/
Stingy bosses and spare change: How much should you give to the office whip-round? bbc.com/news/articles/c2el0v…
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I'm SO SICK of the shameless use of LLMs to spit out garbage papers that merely look legitimate. It's a waste of everyone's time, and I'm frustrated that I'm expected to review work the authors didn't care to read. We need far better monitoring systems to contain this madness.
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Who in the fuck sees someone die and then thinks ‘Hey let me use this opportunity to promote my new book’?
The Jason Arday scandal/fiasco/tragedy is a prime example of "pluralistic ignorance." No sapient being could believe his ziggurat of whoppers, but each may have privately thought that everyone else believed them. This happens when the expression of an idea is stigmatized or punished, as obviously happened here: anyone expressing common-sense incredulity was tarred as a racist, ableist, and abettor of suicide (not to mention threatened by a barracuda law firm and questioned by the police). For more on pluralistic ignorance and other extraordinary popular delusions, see When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life (preorder paperback here; out in a few weeks). amazon.com/When-Everyone-Kno… nytimes.com/2026/08/15/world…
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He committed wrongs, but he didn't murder anybody. Humans are relational beings, and at the end of the day, a family has lost a father, son and brother. Their lives will never be the same. Even if you have no sympathy for Arday, consider them before you type.
