In September 2015, journalist Caitlin Moran published a provocative article in The Saturday Times Magazine about ‘What men need to know about women’. She maintained that there were two fundamental things that defined women in the 21^st century that men really needed to understand. And if they did understand these two things, they would change the way they behaved – overnight.

It was not about the tiny things – why it takes so long for us to get dressed, or why we can so easily lose our confidence – it’s much more fundamental than that.

In our book ‘The Fear Free Organization’ we tackle fear at work, using neuroscience to explain why fear is so destructive, and what can be done to get rid of it. Fear at work damages people and businesses, and directly impacts the bottom-line. Fear-free organisations and the people in them flourish and succeed.

But fear is part of so many aspects of our lives today: bullies thrive on triggering fear in others, and fearful citizens prefer not to get too involved in a society that scares them.