I am currently reading Daniel Kanheman’s, Thinking, fast and Slow. According to Wikipedia, “Kanheman is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, He is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology.” His latest book is very good; I’m just about half way through. However, it doesn’t fill [...]
IT IS almost the end of January, by now you should be back from any vacation returned to work and hopefully have your head above water. Now is the perfect time to revisit the goals, and perhaps wild ideas you had while on holidays. If you’re anything like me, taking time out from routine, for [...]
An article on Fortune, interviews Malcolm Gladwell about his much talked about book, Outliers on the theory of how success happens. Gladwell comments, “We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves. And we have a series of other beliefs that say that our personality, our intelligence, all of [...]
In a blog post at HBR.org, Robert Pozen offers a few tips to a new manager on how he keeps organised and productive. Every night before he leaves the office he prepares for the next day, “I might have a call at 8:30 a.m., a meeting at 9 a.m., and so on. For each event [...]
In the 1990’s it became fashionable to talk about the ‘triple bottom line’ or corporate social responsibility (CSR). I’ve written about this before, and now Schumpeter’s printed blog post in The Economist (October 23-29th), has also written about it. To quote from Schumpeter’s printed blog post in The Economist (October 23-29th, 2010): “triple bottom line”: [...]