Fuzzy thinking is just fuzzy thinking
Kevin Donnelly demonstrates just how fuzzy is his own thinking in Fuzzy thinking leads to failure in The Age Education Supplement today. His opening few paras aren't too bad. He's spot on when he quotes Ken Rowe's research that the main determinant of success at...
I’m back did anyone notice I was gone?
The heading says it all. I got involved in a project last week and found myself exhausted at the end of each day. Just no time for writing - the thing I love most. Hope I can keep it up. Let's see how it goes.
Fast Company on Whole Foods
Check out this Fast Company article on Whole Foods which, in Jason Kottke's words, "[is a] successful blend of hard-core capitalism and social responsibility." (via Kottke) Hopefully we will get around to some more commentary on this article a bit later today.
School is the worst years of your life
Michael Carr-Gregg has a thoughtful piece — Making Schools more Boy–Friendly — in The Age this morning. I value Carr-Gregg's ten suggestions. I note that most of them apply equally to girls. Perhaps he could have titled it "Making schools more student–friendly." Back...
OPUS International Conference
International Perspectives from Group Relations, Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory For Detailed Information, go to: the Opus Conference website. Friday 19 and Saturday 20 November 2004 Keynote Speakers: Gordon Lawrence who will be speaking from an organisational...
The Beautiful American
For some time now I have been thinking about a notion I like to call "The Beautiful American". I came back to it when I came across this article: The Empire of Fear: The American Political Psyche and the Culture of Paranoia from the online journal of Psycho-Social...
The Wisdom of Crowds
This is something we will definitely come back to, but for the moment, take a look at Kottke's piece on this book by James Surowiecki
Birnbaum talks to James Wood
We were really quite taken by Robert Birnbaum's recent interview with Michael Lewis. Birnbaum continues his series on authors with this piece where he talks to James Wood... about his professional dilemmas, what makes for appealing style in fiction, and which stings...
Alexander the Great – What makes a leader great?
Anil Behan runs a great site over at Orgdyne as well as the Orgdyne mailing list. Orgdyne is the place to go for discussion about the often hidden, unspoken and sometimes, ugly, dynamics in organisations. Anil's latest posting is an interview with Manfred Kets de...
Some US Political Trivia
Just came across Taegan Goddard's site. For those of you who like to keep up with trivia from the US political campaign, here are some recent comments he attributes to Democrat nomination Kerry's daughter Alex: Top three things said by Kerry's daughter, Alex, and...