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The Anatomy of a Bad Decision

Most professional failures are not failures of knowledge or intent. They are failures of reasoning — moments when the cognitive shortcuts that serve us well in routine situations lead us badly astray in complex ones. Understanding the anatomy of those failures is the first step toward preventing them.

18 June 2026Read article →

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Why Ethics Training Doesn't Work

Organisations spend billions on ethics and compliance training every year. The evidence that it changes behaviour is, at best, mixed. Understanding why requires an honest look at what most ethics training actually does — and what it fails to do.

22 May 2026Read article →

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18 June 2026

Research·8 min read

The Anatomy of a Bad Decision

Most professional failures are not failures of knowledge or intent. They are failures of reasoning — moments when the cognitive shortcuts that serve us well in routine situations lead us badly astray in complex ones. Understanding the anatomy of those failures is the first step toward preventing them.

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22 May 2026

Insight·6 min read

Why Ethics Training Doesn't Work

Organisations spend billions on ethics and compliance training every year. The evidence that it changes behaviour is, at best, mixed. Understanding why requires an honest look at what most ethics training actually does — and what it fails to do.

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10 April 2026

Research·7 min read

Pressure and Professional Judgement

The conditions under which professionals make their most consequential decisions are rarely the conditions under which they are trained to make them. Understanding the gap between training conditions and operational reality is essential to developing judgement that holds under pressure.

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5 March 2026

Methodology·9 min read

Measuring Ethical Development

How do you know if a professional's ethical reasoning has improved? The question is harder than it looks — and the way organisations typically try to answer it is often worse than useless. Here is how we think about measurement.

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14 February 2026

Innovation·7 min read

The Role of AI in Professional Development

AI is transforming many fields. In professional development, its most significant contribution may not be in content delivery — but in the analysis of reasoning patterns at a scale and depth that was previously impossible.

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20 January 2026

Sector Insight·8 min read

Safeguarding and Moral Distress

Safeguarding professionals routinely make decisions with profound consequences for vulnerable people, often with incomplete information and under significant time pressure. The psychological cost of this work is substantial — and largely invisible to the organisations that depend on it.

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The Anatomy of a Bad Decision

Why Ethics Training Doesn't Work

Pressure and Professional Judgement

Measuring Ethical Development

The Role of AI in Professional Development

Safeguarding and Moral Distress

The Anatomy of a Bad Decision

Why Ethics Training Doesn't Work

Pressure and Professional Judgement

Measuring Ethical Development

The Role of AI in Professional Development

Safeguarding and Moral Distress

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