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What a Two-Week Sport Camp Revealed About Autism and Participation
A two-week multidisciplinary sports camp studied by Cei and colleagues through parents’ reports of children's experiences.
Human Performance, Decision Making and Leadership.
Evidence-led analysis of Human Performance, Decision Making, Leadership and the forces that shape how people perform under pressure.
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Training Attention in Elite Football: Alberto Cei’s Early Applied Model
Revisiting Alberto Cei’s 1994 approach to attention assessment and match analysis in elite football.
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Leadership
What Is Leadership?
Leadership is not a title or a universal personality type. It is the practice of creating direction, conditions for coordinated action and accountability under real constraints.
Human Performance
Why Skilled People Sometimes Fail When the Stakes Rise
Pressure does not erase expertise. It can redirect attention, increase self-monitoring or fill limited mental capacity with consequences that compete with the task.
Politics
A Political Consultant Is Not Paid to Tell the Candidate They Are Right
A serious political consultant is not paid to protect the candidate from contradiction. The job is to improve decision quality and keep inconvenient information alive long enough to matter.
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What Alberto Cei and Mirko Farina Reveal About Concentration and Self-Talk in Football
A research feature on concentration and self-talk in football through the work of Mirko Farina and Alberto Cei.
Research
Ferruccio Antonelli's Legacy: Building Modern Sport Psychology
An evidence-conscious editorial overview of research by Alberto Cei, published in 2011.
Sport
When Talent Identification Confuses Maturity with Potential
Early physical advantage can look like lasting football potential. Research suggests selectors should be careful about treating the two as equivalent.
Decision Making
The Dangerous Comfort of Consensus
Consensus can be valuable. The risk begins when agreement is treated as proof that a group has examined the right information.
Psychology
Who Are You When the Game Is Over?
What happens when the body begins to say no after decades of being an athlete? Alberto Cei examines the deeper challenge of retirement: discovering who you are when sport can no longer define you.
News Analysis
Why Elite Performance Is Built Before Competition Begins
Elite performance is visible in competition, but much of what makes it possible is built earlier through recovery, sleep, nutrition, load management and psychological preparation.
Communication
When Direct Communication Is Not the Best Communication
Leaders are often told to be more direct. Recent organisational research suggests a better question: what does the listener need to understand, infer and own after the message?
Essay
Can You Belong Without Surrendering Your Judgement?
Belonging is one of the strongest forces in collective life. The harder question is whether identity can remain intact when the group disagrees.
Essay
Loyalty, Discipline and Obedience Are Not the Same Thing
Healthy groups need coordination, but coordination becomes dangerous when loyalty is confused with surrendering judgement.
Society
Why Competence Alone Does Not Make an Institution Trustworthy
Competence answers whether an institution can act. Integrity and accountability shape what people expect it to do with that capacity. Trust cannot be reduced to performance alone.
Communication
Why People Stay Silent Even When They Know Something Is Wrong
Silence inside an organisation is easily mistaken for agreement. Yet people often withhold useful information because experience has taught them to question either the safety or the usefulness of speaking.
Communication
Why the Same Message Means Something Different Coming from Power
A suggestion from a peer and the same suggestion from a powerful leader are not the same message. Hierarchy changes the practical meaning of language.
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Human PerformancePressure, expertise, adaptation and recovery
Decision MakingJudgement, risk, uncertainty and cognitive bias
LeadershipResponsibility, power, communication and institutions
PsychologyBehaviour, cognition and emotion
CommunicationClarity, persuasion, listening and trust
SocietyCulture, institutions, education and public life
SportPerformance, coaching and athlete development
Politics & Public LifeLeadership, scrutiny, communication and civic life