May 20, 2008
In 40 years as a highly regarded cancer surgeon, Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta had never made a mistake like this. When an electrode was left inside Maria Del Rosario Valdez after her son was delivered by Caesarean section, she was gratified that the hospital quickly acknowledged its mistake and…
March 30, 2008
To be human is to try continually, though to be human means at the same time to fail continuously. We’re the attempt, not the attainment. Disappointment or the light of the common day Bruce Fleming, p. 9
January 25, 2008
I’ve mentioned this video before – A Vision of Students Today – from a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty and now Professor Michael Wesch has outlined in detail the process that went into creating the piece and it’s a fascinating example of reflection, reflexivity and participant…
December 16, 2007
Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize speech is a wonderful and impassioned plea for the importance of education and telling our stories. In her speech she talks about illiteracy and the lack of books in Africa and compares the passion for learning with our comfortable complacency here – which is particularly apt…
October 22, 2007
Johnnie’s asking some great questions this week. On Friday he asked: Obviously, this is too simplistic. But I have this question for anyone who’s got some process to manage human beings in organisations. You know the sort of thing… a process to set and manage coaching; a format for efficient…
October 16, 2007
There are a number of existential questions to which I have always wanted answers..It’s a failing on my part … I know this…but for many months now I’ve tried and failed to understand what Knowledge Management is. My fantasy is that managing knowledge is akin to herding cats … wayward…
September 27, 2007
I like this video of Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice at the TED conference talking through his thesis that too much choice results in too much misery. I’ll write more about this at a later stage, particularly as it relates to my own research but for now,…
September 5, 2007
Boundary setting is a recurring interest and theme here and I was interested to see this post over at The Chief Happiness Officer Just Say No – to that evil company. Alexander Kjerulf shares comments left on another post – can you be happy in an evil business? and they…
September 3, 2007
Matt Moore continues to write really engaging posts and his latest one The Technology of the Secret really piqued my curiosity. He’s writing about the process of telling and keeping secrets and how much of his work (and indeed my own) revolves around secret keeping. Simply hiding something makes it…
July 13, 2007
What happens when you combine Mindmapping with Wikipedia? You get WikiMindMap a tool that presents the information you are looking for in Mindmap form. I searched for information on “psychoanalysis” and got this series of branches. Clicking on any of the branches then brings up more detail which means you…
