The following is a TED talk by Dan Pink. Sixty years ago Edward Deming understood the strange counter-intuitive results of experiment Dan explains and railed against the motivational techniques being used in business. Are we finally coming of Age?
Twelve and a half minutes minutes in he speaks of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
The business tools to [...]
It’s an interesting time of year to observe human behaviour. All the monotheistic religions are having or recently have had a major event in their calendar. That seems to put a perceivable buzz in the air that effects us all, regardless of whether we have a faith or not. It manifests in lots of ways, [...]
Thought I’d take a few minutes to answer Seth Godin’s survey to see if I could get more clarity on what I’m doing with Kahatika.
From his latest blog 8 questions and why we get
Who are you trying to please?
Myself
Why? – Highest in the hierarchy of needs, Self-actualisation
What are you promising?
To “Save the World”
Why? – Seemed [...]
Watching the World Debate on the BBC last night I noted co-winner of the Nobel prize for physics 2009 Willard Boyle’s take on the internet.
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Like him I often find the Internet Plaghh!
His idea of entrusting organisations to distill information for human consumption is a little bit like entrusting a government formed through representative democracy.
None of [...]
Our biggest change agent “Business”, develops, causing society to progress in some direction or another, for what seems like more and more inexplicable reasons.
Surely as a society it would be great to have confidence that our most powerful change agents are doing what they do for admirable reasons?
According to a new study by Badenoch [...]
I’ve just read a blog by Seth Godin about Protecting vs Spreading Ideas. The moral of his blog, as far as I can tell, is; “Get good at what you do”; “Spread your Ideas Freely” they belong to everyone.
I agree with this philosophy but have often agonised over possible exceptions to this rule.
Lets take a [...]
Wisdom – the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight. ~ Dictionary.com
Insight -an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, esp. through intuitive understanding ~ Dictionary.com
If I create a tool that gives us practice at exhibiting [...]
I have found much to my dismay that if I stop exercising my muscles I get weaker and less capable of doing the physical things I used to do.
The opportunity to do physical exercise outside of the time I spend swapping my time for money is getting greater and greater. There are no end of [...]
I seem to concerned about Love but what is my concern for Money?
Ahh! I see, you’re a conspiracy theory nut blaming the banking industry and big business for the woes of the world!
Not at all, just trying to reveal just how controlling the money system is, and how that impacts on our ability to exhibit [...]
“The world would be saved if we could just love one another.”
An airy fairy statement used by hippies and dreamers?
No matter how true the statement may be, it is hardly a pragmatic plan of attack to “Save the World”.
Defining love is difficult in many ways. It’s association with sexual intimacy, and it’s broad context of [...]
