Archive for the ‘Corporate Culture’ Category

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix it - A Book!

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Saturday and the kids are munching on croissants and we are happly slurping our coffes to our hearts content and reading our usual parts of the newspaper. I, to be honest, read very little until later on in the day but one short article caught my attention about meetings and ...

Prize-winning bastards advance ignoble cause

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Someone is finally talking some sense? Prize-winning bastards advance ignoble cause   Ian Sample October 4, 2008 A STUDY of bastards in the workplace, a theory on the relationship between sound and food and some odd revelations on the medical values of placebos have all been recognised as contributions to learning, with their inclusion among ...

A Tip from Simon Caulkin for 2008

Monday, December 31st, 2007

31st Dec. - Whilst I am sitting in the kitchen and making my way through The Observer, thinking about 2008 and what will be my key-thought for organisations and my course participants, I stumbled upon some words which I could not have put together better myself. An article by Simon Caulkin, ...

Personal Values

Monday, November 12th, 2007

“Culture” is to a group what “personality” is to an individual. People of different cultures share basic concepts but view them from different angles and perspectives, leading them to behave differently. If you are interested in your own values and would like to carry out a 20 minute test that ...

It must be true then…

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is quoted in the FT of the 30th of October.  Commenting on Yale's "internationalisation" (non-US students have risen 5-fold in 14 years, albeit from just 2% to a record 10%)  and his desire to see it continue he, says that  "A major motivation for this ...