Thursday 27 April 2023
07:45
Tracey Camilleri
The Social Brain
How many people does the ideal team contain? How do groups bond, earn trust and forge shared identities? How to diffuse tension and encourage cooperation? By explaining precisely how the ‘social brain’ works, Tracey shows how human groups function and how to create great, high-performing teams.
Tracey is the co-founder of Thompson Harrison and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School where she designed and directed the flagship Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme (2012-2022). Previously she ran her own consulting company, WMC Communications, worked as an associate for the private investment bank, Allen and Company, as new business director for the publishing company, Marshall Cavendish, a teacher of English literature at St Paul’s Girls’ School, and as a research associate at Bain and Company. Her book, The Social Brain, written in partnership with Sam Rockey and evolutionary psychologist, Professor Robin Dunbar, is published in Feb 2023.
'Ever since the Industrial Revolution, an engineering mindset has dominated management thinking, making it easy for managers to forget that, ultimately, productive work is human. This wonderful book reminds us that businesses are also biological and social: created by living beings who can – and want to – transcend individual capacity with collective intelligence. It could not be more timely, wise and useful.'
Co-founder of Thompson Harrison, Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School
Tracey is the co-founder of Thompson Harrison and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School where she designed and directed the flagship Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme (2012-2022). Previously she ran her own consulting company, WMC Communications, worked as an associate for the private investment bank, Allen and Company, as new business director for the publishing company, Marshall Cavendish, a teacher of English literature at St Paul’s Girls’ School, and as a research associate at Bain and Company. Her book, The Social Brain, written in partnership with Sam Rockey and evolutionary psychologist, Professor Robin Dunbar, is published in Feb 2023.
