The Oxford Review Podcast

In this episode David talks with Julia Wire and Esther Flanagan from the UK College of Policing about methods of reducing sexism in the police and a paper they recently published. For full notes go to: 

In this episode, David and Jannett talk about what leaders and managers need to know about neurodiversity and neurodiverse issues in their organisations. For full notes, transcripts and links go to 

In this episode David talks with Steve Hearsum - author of 'No Silver Bullet - Bursting the bubble of the organisational quick fix'. For full show notes, links, downloads etc please go to: 

In this episode David talks with Frank Tsuro about first generation leaders and the issues they face. For full notes, transcripts and links go to: 

Should Neurodiversity have greater prominence in DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)? In this episode David and Jannett Morgan talk through some of the issues around neurodiversity being considered more in the DEI thinking and focus. For full notes and links go to: 

In this episode David talks with Tricia Kennedy, one of the authors of the new book Change Myths: The professional's guide to separating sense from nonsense. For full notes, links and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/change-myths-separating-sense-from-nonsense/

In this episode David and Jannett Morgan talk about the communication preferences of neurodiverse people. For the full notes, transcript and links please visit: 

In this podcast David and Jannett Morgan unravel what the distinction is between neurotypical and neurodiversity. For full notes, transcript, links and more go to: 

In this episode David talks with Jannett Morgan about the neurodiversity issues that occur in the workplace. For the transcript, notes, links and more go to: 

In this mini series David talks with Neurodiversity consultant Jannett Morgan about what neurodiversity is. For full transcript and notes and links go to: 

In this podcast David looks at a range of strategies that help protect organisations from misinformation, disinformation and plausible rubbish.   To book a call with David about how to develop critical thinking, evidence-based-practice and prevent misinformation, disinformation and plausible rubbish from negatively impacting your organisation CLICK HERE    Transcript    In this podcast, I want to have a look at how to protect your  organisation from plausible, rubbish, and misinformation. Hi, David  Wilkinson here. I'm the founder and editor In Chief of the Oxford Review, and today I want to have a look at the problem plausible, rubbish misinformation and disinformation causes in organisations and how organisations can protect themselves. In the era of social media chat, G P T, AI and Mass Digital Communication, fake news, misinformation and disinformation can spread like wildfire. And due to the myriad sources and entrance points of information into an organisation, they tend to be vulnerable to falling prey to plausible rubbish. Now misinformation and disinformation, whether deliberate or not, can cause significant harm to an organisation's operations market, share, reputation, and decision making processes. So in this podcast, what I want to do is provide you with a concise research based guide on how to effectively protect your organization from the dangers of misinformation. Now misinformation and disinformation is a growing and serious issue for many organisations and businesses, both large and small. A 2018 study by M I T or Massachusetts Institute of Technology published in the journal Science showed that false news stories are about 70% more likely to be retweeted on Twitter than true ones now. The study followed 126,000 rumors circulating on Twitter, and firstly found that false news was significantly more likely to be shared than true news. The study also found that the top 1% of fake news posts being shared online in what is known as false news, cascades spreads between 1000 and a hundred thousand people on average. Now, this demonstrates how plausible rubbish can infiltrate communication channels, influence, opinion, and become knowledge at a significant speed and scale these days. Now there are clear distinctions between misinformation, disinformation, and plausible rubbish. Now, misinformation refers to the incorrect or misleading information that's often shared regardless of intent. This is usually because of an error or misunderstanding. It's not a, usually a deliberate intention to mislead. For example, an individual might unknowingly share an untrue or inaccurate fact on social media believing it to be true or most likely, and this is how, fake information infiltrates organizations is that. it's based on incorrect information in training and education programs, And this incorrect information now tends to spread to a broader audience, Disinformation, on the other hand, is false information that's deliberately created and shared, intending to cause harm or mislead others. Uh, disinformation is actually a manipulation and is often used for propaganda to deceive or just to obscure the truth. Now this includes spreading false rumors to smear a business competitor or maliciously circulating false information for political or control issues. For example, the key difference from misinformation lies in the intent to deceive. Now plausible rubbish refers to information or assertions that while sound credible or believable upon first hearing, particularly because of its logical or coherent, presentations are in fact false, misleading, or without a solid foundation or fact. Plausible, rubbish spreads as misinformation, but can also result from disinformation. Now plausible rubbish of often enters an organization and takes holders kind of common fact through things like poor training programs, a lack of critical thinking and skill, uh, lack of skill with research and evidence-based practice in other systems. Now plausible, rubbish, successfully deceives or misleads because it is cloaked in a veneer of plausibility. And seems reasonable or probable to an unsuspecting and untrained audience, even when it is without reliable evidence or research. Now, there are many problems posed by misinformation, disinformation, and plausible rubbish entering into an organisation's knowledge base. And these includes things like eroding trust. When an organization systems knowledge management processes and common organisational knowledge becomes infiltrated by false information, it can seriously undermine the trust and confidence of stakeholders such as customers, employees, and investors, as well as employees re reducing decision making effectiveness. Now decision makers relying on inaccurate information can often lead to strategic in operational areas that can jeopardize an organization's operations and outcomes. They also increase legal and regulatory risk. Misinformation has been found to severely expose an organisation to the risk of legal and regulatory peril. A number of cases of misinformation entering organisational systems and being accepted as knowledge has resulted in quite severe penalties for non-compliance with things like data protection and other laws, for example. Increased disruption to supply chains. Now, misinformation and disinformation have been found to be the heart of several supply chain disruptions and have even led to the complete collapse of supply chains. And the problem is, if bad information infiltrates the culture and systems of an organisation, it can become a systemic issue leading to many ongoing detrimental effects. The spread of disinformation can become normalized leading to a dysfunctional work environment where truth and transparency are undervalued and become mixed up. Moreover, the continual use of false information can distort the organisation's ability to make sound judgments leading to continual poor decision making. Not only that, but a culture infiltrated by misinformation can ultimately lead to the collapse of the organisation, if not addressed promptly and effectively. Now, there are a number of evidence-based strategies that you can use to protect your organisation. Now things like,  clear policies. You've gotta have good policy, clearly stating the organisation's stance on misinformation and disinformation, it's seriousness, and what procedures should be taken to verify information  is   important for every organisation. Additionally, there should be a process in place to help identify and rectify inaccuracies, as well as identify sources of information and sources of trusted information. The policy should be regularly reviewed and updated. It's also important to train staffing critical thinking information literacy people are at the heart of any organization's efforts to counter false information. Employees who can think critically and are trained to use evidence-based practices are significantly less likely to fall foul of information. Now we've got an an Oxford Review Essential Guide to Evidence-Based Practice on the website. I'll put a link in the show notes to that. So empowering employees to recognize and counter misinformation by providing training on critical thinking, digital literacy and evidence-based practice is one of the most potent ways to deal with a problem of false information impacting the organisation. Now, this goes hand in hand with the previous point about policy. Policy without critical thinking and evidence-based practice is unlikely to succeed. You also need to monitor your organisation's online presence and communication channels. It is important  to monitor where information's coming from,  and that includes social media channels, news sources  in order to be able to identify and quickly respond to instances of misinformation starting. It's also important to collaborate with credible sources of information. You know, building relationships with trusted organisations and sources such as university and organisations like us, the Oxford Review to ensure that information entering your in your organisation is both valid and reliable. Now, one of the things that you can do is book a call with us or me, to talk about how we can help protect your organisation from misinformation and disinformation. You can also encourage open communication across the organisation. For example, fostering an organisational culture that values open communication and the sharing of accurate information and critical thinking. This helps employees feel comfortable reporting instances of misinformation without fear of reprisal. This includes creating the expectation that people will clearly communicate the sources and methods used to obtain and verify information. It's also important to implement robust fact checking protocols, establishing internal fact checking procedures for all outgoing communications, such as press releases, marketing materials, and social media posts, for example, to ensure the consistent dissemination of accurate information. There's nothing worse than having a program or a marketing program or something like that going out, finding that it's based on misinformation. It's also important to develop an incident response plan so that you formulate a detail plan outlining the steps your organisation will take in the event that misinformation is detected or has already spread. This plan should include guidelines for swiftly and effectively responding to minimize the impact of false information and showing stakeholders and employees that your organisation is being proactive in taking the veracity of the information and knowledge with which it operates very seriously. It's also important to   evaluate and leverage technology. Utilize high quality technological tools and platforms such as AI, machine learning algorithms to detect and prevent the spread of misinformation within your organisation's digital channels. It's also important to make sure that your AI is also monitored for misinformation, and this is one of the most, common ways that misinformation at the moment is entering. Organisations through things like Chat, G P T, where people are going off and looking things up. Assuming that chat G p T, is it like a database! When actually it's generative, so it'll create stuff that isn't real. And we're finding this in universities, for example, students are going off and using chat G P T to create essays and things. And when we look at them, we're going, hang on a minute, that's not right. and, there's been a number of those cases occurring in the last few months within my university. It's also important to learn from incidents and create an organisational learning culture and a learning orientation following any incident involving misinformation, conduct a thorough review to identify the root causes, evaluate the effectiveness of your organisation's response, and make necessary improvements to policies, procedures, and systems. as I've mentioned before, you know, using reputable sources and research backed information and helping people to identify the difference between research based and evidence-based information and opinion-based information or stuff that's just on blog posts, et cetera. Now this means giving your staff access to credible sources such as the Oxford Review, research bases and things like that for evidence-based information and insights. Now, by relying on reputable sources, your organisation cannot only significantly reduce the risk of adopting and disseminating misinformation, but it also shows staff how to become more evidence-based critical thinkers. Now, research briefings often challenge common thinking and knowledge and increase both cognitive flexibility and adaptability. Now, sources such as the Oxford Review, for example, often conduct extensive research and follow rigorous methodologies and present findings in a transparent manner with references, ensuring that your organisation's decision making processes are based on solid evidence. Now, Lastly, assess the evidence base of external consultants, trainers, and organisations. So whenever engaging with external consultants, trainers, and organisations, it's really important to conduct due diligence, to check  the  credibility and adherence to evidence-based practices of these people and organisations. Quite a lot of bad information and misinformation enter into organizations in the, guise of. Facts when actually they're something that they've picked up on the internet or is kind of common knowledge within their area. But when we start to have a look at it from a research base, there's either no evidence or the evidence is contrary to that. And that happens a lot. We get a lot of our members coming to us, asking us questions about, things that consultants have brought into an organisation and when we look at them, we find that,  they're not correct. And it's also important to check their references and qualifications and it's wise to check the quality of the information that they're providing and ask about their sources. Out of date or just plain wrong information entering your organisation through these routes can have a significant negative consequence. So as leaders, it's essential to take a proactive approach in protecting your organisation from the dangers of misinformation. By implementing the strategies that have outlined above, you can significantly reduce the risks associated with plausible rubbish, and strengthen the integrity of your organisation's decision making processes. And if you want to know more about protecting your organisation from misinformation, disinformation, implausible, rubbish book a no obligation, confidential, one-to-one, call with me, the links in the show notes, and we can help you to navigate this and get your staff into a place where they're much more critical and much more evidence based. So please, if you want to protect your organization from misinformation, disinformation, and. Plausible rubbish. Go to the show notes. There's a link there and you can book a chat with me.    The link to our Essential Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

In this episode I talk with Dr. Grant Van Ulbrich about his latest book Transforming Sales Management: Lead Sales Teams Through Change. The book is available here: Paperback Kindle For full notes, transcript and links go to: https://oxford-review.com/transforming-sales-management/

In this episode, David talks with the inventor of the GOALposts coaching model, Keith Hackett. For full notes, links, graphics and transcript visit: https://oxford-review.com/goalposts-coaching/

Changing an organisation at a structural level is one thing. Changeing the culture is a whole different ball game. In this podcast, David talks with Dr. Kate Price about her latest book looking at culture change in organisations: Taming the Culture Tiger. For all the links, transcript and more go to:  

In this episode David talks with Neela Mühlemann from the Business School, at the University of Greenwich in London, and Alex Haslam from the School of Psychology, at The University of Queensland in Australia about a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, entitled Understanding Responses to an Organizational Takeover: Introducing The Social Identity Model of Organizational Change. For full notes, links and transcript go to: 

Using technology to extend the capability of coaches and coaching is a hot topic. In this episode David talks again with author and coach consultant about his latest book, Superhuman Coaching. For full notes, links and transcript go to:   

In this podcast, David talks with Jan Laser, a HR professional who publishes academic research papers, and has recently published an interesting paper about ambidextrous leadership. For full notes, links and more go to: 

In this episode, David talks with Melanie Marshall about what it takes to create a successful digital transformation project. For full notes and more go to: 

In this episode, David talks with Melanie Marshall look at some recent research that has found that four factors, digitisation, sustainability, democratic leadership, and design thinking, significantly impact organisational change. For the full notes, transcript, reference and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/how-design-thinking-and-resilience-impact-organisational-transformations/

In this episode, David and guest, transformation consultant Melanie Marshall examine some of the research looking at issues around the role of uncertainty and leadership during digital transformation projects. For a full transcript and more, go to: https://oxford-review.com/transformational-leadership-digital-transformation/

In this episode, Melanie Marshall, Transformation Consultant, shares her experience of helping organisations with digital transformation projects. For full notes, details of Melanie, the transcript etc. go to: https://oxford-review.com/transformation-consultant/

In this, the third episode in the digital transformation mini series, David and Melanie look at what the research and practice says about the factors for successful digital transformation. For full notes and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/success-factors-digital-transformation/

In this episode in the 7 part mini series, David talks with consultant Melanie Marshall about the connection between her Trust for Transformation Model and digital transformation. Forr the full show notes and more go to: 

In this podcast, the first in a series of seven podcasts about digital transformation, David talks with Melanie Marshall, a digital transformation and change consultant. For the full show notes go to: https://oxford-review.com/what-is-digital-transformation/

In this podcast David is talking with Michelle Drake about research she conducted looking at the links between employee retention and job satisfaction. For full notes, references etc. go to: Https://oxford-review.com/employee-retention-job-satisfaction/

In this episode, David talks with Scott Hunter about his leadership influence model. The model, full notes, links and transcript are here: https://oxford-review.com/blog-leadership-influence/

In this really interesting episode David talks with Jo Franco-Wheeler who is the Director of Organisational Development and Diversity at Inmarsat about the issues high tech organisations are facing especially around the organisational development and inclusion areas. For full notes, transcript and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/jo-franco-wheeler/

Frames and framing are critical to how we see thing, think and act. In this interview, David talks with the authors of a new book Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil - Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt. For the full episode notes, links, transcript and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/frames-framers-interview/

In this Episode David talks with Professor Adrian Furnham, professor of Psychology at UCL in the UK and the Norwegian Business School in Oslo about his recent research looking at Dark Triad traits in coaches. For the full episode notes, links and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/coach-dark-triad-traits/

In this episode, David talks with the author James Wetrich about his latest book Stifled: Where good leaders go wrong. For full information, the show notes and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/stifled/

Coaching in a digital world brings new challenges to coaches, their clients and organisations. In this episode David talks with Sam Isaacson about How to Thrive as a Coach in a Digital World. For the full show notes, links and transcript go to https://oxford-review.com/coaching-in-a-digital-worl/

In this episode, David talks with Professor Olivier Sibony, co-author of the book Noise: A flaw in human judgement. For all the links, transcript and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/noise/  

Developing teams and team performance with George Karseras author of the new book Build Better Teams: Creating Winning Teams in the Digital Age.   For full notes and links go to: https://oxford-review.com/build-better-teams/

In this episode the author of the book 'The Hidden Edge: Why mental fitness is the only advantage that matters in business' talks with David about mental fitness, what it is, how it is development and why it is so important. For more including a full profile, links to the book, a transcript and more go to https://oxford-review.com/mental-fitness/

In this episode, David talks with Professor Arie Kruglanski from Maryland University about how extreme thinking and behaviours develop. In a recently published paper, Arie looked at how a motivational imbalance in which people have multiple goals can lead to extreme and obsessive thinking and behaviours. For the full notes, transcript etc go to: https://oxford-review.com/how-to-moderate-extreme-thinking-behaviour-and-obsessions-at-work/    

An explanation frequently forwarded for many forms of organisational failure is that of hubris or overconfidence or extreme and inordinate self-confidence, over optimism, excessive self-esteem, pride as well as arrogance. In this interview, David talks with Professor Dennish Tourish. He is this Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at the University of Sussex. Here he talks about a new study looking at the impact of hubris on organisations.  For the full notes, transcript and more go to: https://oxford-review.com/podcast-hubris/

There is probably more misinformation and misunderstanding circulating about neuroscience than probably any other aspect of science. In this interview, Stella Collins, the author of "Neuroscience for Learning and Development: How to Apply Neuroscience and Psychology for Improved Learning and Training" (https://amzn.to/3yMpFRY) talks about how Neuroscience can be used to enhance learning and training / teaching / facilitation.  For the full notes, links and transcript go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/how-to-use-neuroscience-for-learning-and-development/ 

In this podcast, David Wilkinson, the editor of The Oxford Review talks with Dr. Roger Noon about the C2 Model of presence in coaching. For the full notes, links, see the model, transcript etc. go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/coaching-presence-what-it-is-and-how-to-develop-it-with-dr-roger-noon/

In this episode David talks with Professor Blake Jelley from the University of Prince Edward Island's Faculty of Business. In this podcast Blake talks about a recent study he conducted looking at Using Personality Feedback for Work-Related Development and Performance Improvement. For all the links, transcript and more go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/personality-instruments-feedback/

In this podcast David talks with Grand van Ulbrich about a recently published paper detailing a new personal change model, or more rightly, two models - Scared - So What. For full notes, diagrams of the models and Grants details go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/personal-change-model/

In this episode David talks with Melanie Marshall the author of Trust: The foundation for healthy organisations and teams. For the full podcast notes, links and transcript go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/organisational-team-trust/

In this episode David talks with Guy Lubitsh, co-author of the new book Connect: How to resolve conflict, improve communication, strengthen relationships about how people can improve their communication and relationships. For full notes, links, a transcript and more go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/better-relationships-connect-interview/

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented society, individuals and organisations a range of serious problems and challenges. Many of these are paradoxes that often go unrecognised and undiagnosed. Further,  understanding how to deal with paradoxes that are inherent in just about every crisis situation is not common knowledge. In this interview, David talks with a group of researchers who are part of a team of 42 researchers who recently published a series of 4 papers about paradox theory and the paradoxes that Covid has presented to the world.  For full notes, links, downloads and transcript visit: https://www.oxford-review.com/covid-paradoxes/  

In this interview Anna Hatchard talks about her research about the impact of laughter in general and laughter yoga in particular on our well-being and mental health.  For full details, transcript and links go to 

In this episode David talks with Christian Criado-Perez from The University of New South Wales about the enablers of evidence-based management and why learning capability is a critical component - for the full transcript, links and note go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/the-enablers-of-evidence-based-management-research-interview/

In this episode, David talks with author Steve McIntosh about the book he co-authored with John MacKey and Carter Phipps  'Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business' about the idea of conscious leadership, what it is and why it matters.  For full episode notes, links and more go to: 

What are conscious and spiritual ways of leadership? In this interview, David talks with David Wetton about conscious and spiritual leadership, what they are, why they go together, what the research says and a whole lot more.  Full podcast notes, links and more can be found at: https://www.oxford-review.com/spiritual-leadership-david-wetton/

In this episode David talks with author and consultant Keegan Luiters about his recently published book Team Up   For full details, transcript and more go to: 

What is the difference between digital transformation and IT enabled organisational transformation, and does it matter anyway? In this podcast David interviews a team of researchers who recently published the results of a series of studies looking at the differences between digital transformation and IT enabled organisational transformation.  They also explore the impact this different makes to organisations... and it is quite profound.  For full notes, references, researcher profiles and transcript go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/digital-transformation-difference/

How error and failure averse is your organisation? In this episode David talks with consultant and author of the book 'Under pressure: Diving deeper into human factors'    For the full notes and more go to...  

Why scientific myths not only endure in public but also scientific minds infecting research with misleading counter-factual pseudo-research. Asst. Professor Kare Letrud talks to David about a common such myth, the learning pyramid and how such myths become to believed even by other scientists. To learn more go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/scientific-myths/