Paul Walsh interviewed me about disappointment recently on Open Democracy and we wandered into all kinds of interesting corners including Brexit, Corbyn and politics. The full interview can be seen here and you can find Paul here.
Paul Walsh interviewed me about disappointment recently on Open Democracy and we wandered into all kinds of interesting corners including Brexit, Corbyn and politics. The full interview can be seen here and you can find Paul here.
April 13, 2018
I begin many of my lectures by telling students that I hope to disappoint them. I look forward to the moment they realise I have failed to live up to their expectations of me. They are not happy at the prospect. What do I mean I will disappoint? They haven’t…
November 16, 2016
I was invited to contribute a blog post to this fascinating series on Surviving Work over on the LSE Business Review. I wrote a short piece on what I term the ‘tyranny of satisfaction’. It’s everywhere…’good enough’ is no longer good enough. Expectations always exceed capacity to deliver and instead…
June 16, 2014
I was at a very interesting lecture by Constance Deveraux in UCD recently during which the issue of ‘excellence’ (as it related to the arts) was raised. Achieving excellence has become a mainstream indicator of success and, a primary criterion by which the arts are valued and funded. One person…
July 7, 2012
Apologies for the radio silence the past few months. I put blogging on hold while I completed my doctoral thesis. My PhD was awarded at the end of May after a really engaging and interesting viva voce (defense). The title of my thesis was ‘the organization of disappointment’ and my…