October 13, 2009
The Internet has no business plan and no CEO..it’s a pilot project and the jury may still be out… in this TED talk Harvard Law Professor and social theoristJonathan Zittrain suggests that the Internet is a collection of random acts of kindness and trust – we have no obligation to…
October 8, 2009
What do you do with what you know? Particularly if what you ‘know’ isn’t what your current organisation values? How do you turn what you “know” into what you “do”? It’s a subject that has come up for much discussion amongst colleagues and friends these days. Recession, lay offs, mid…
September 22, 2009
My website was hacked earlier in the summer, which caused some hiatus in my publishing schedule – of course one delay led to another and before you know it weeks have passed. The extended break turned into something longer than expected but also provided an opportunity to think about use…
June 12, 2009
From Dan Gilbert’s website Q. Being a cynic, as so many of us are these days, I imagine that everything that can go wrong in a situation will. What does your book have to say about the low-level anxiety most of us experience? A. You probably think it would be…
June 1, 2009
Matthew Stewart’s essay on the value and worth (or not) of management education in The Atlantic is worth reading. It’s a bit of a rant about management theory and education but he does ask som provocative questions which should be relevant to anyone thinking of embarking on a management training…
May 4, 2009
Kindness is in danger of disappearing – it has become our “forbidden pleasure” and something “we feel consistently deprived of” – so say Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor in their new book On Kindness. The book is an impassioned plea for the return of kindness in a selfish age…and was…
January 26, 2009
This is my contribution (or should I say Adam Phillips’ contribution) to the current end-of-the-world scenario we appear to be in the midst of right now. Whether or not there is a gene for worrying — or indeed a gene for being a geneticist — a psychoanalytic story about worrying…
October 20, 2008
Let’s imagine that disappointment is a useful refuge, so that once you feel disappointed you know where you are. This is one version. The other version is that there’s a life organised to avoid the possibility of disappointment. And then the question would be, what’s the big problem with disappointment?…
September 16, 2008
Nothing promotes excess like talking about excess – Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks about excess (extravagant violations of law, decency and morality) in The Essay on BBC Radio 3 every night this week. In the first episode (15 minutes) he asks is our appetite by nature excessive – and makes a…
August 31, 2008
I haven’t had a lot of time to blog this week but one thing that’s going around in my mind is “stress” management and how that actually works? I’m thinking that before you get there you may need to engage in some “dis-stress” management which is really what people present…
