Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
“Allowing people to take time out to watch football during working hours is simply too costly, untimely, and unfair,” so says Willem Smit, a researcher at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
It is amazing just how much the pursuit of production and profit is held up as justification not to ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
If you walked into one of the most successful people in the world's home or office, would you expect to find row after row of self help DVDs/CDs and books? Have you seen any on MTV's ‘Cribs’ and 'Who lives in house like this?' Thought not.
Americans spent $11 billion in ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
“This notion — that material investment is somehow more important to life than personal investment — is exactly what leads so many of us to believe we could never afford to [insert whatever it is you personally want to do]” with apologies to Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding, for paraphrasing.
One ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Feel so bad that I have not blogged for over a week now, have plenty to write about just not got the time.....
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
"This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise, or, at least neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch ...
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. [Lois McMaster Bujold]
Despite my dislike for ‘reality’ TV, I do occasionally watch programs like ‘Pop Idol’ and ‘X Factor’ mainly because the family with 2 budding singers ...
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
I have always had a bit of unease whenever I hear of Western countries attempting to tell third world countries, particularly African countries about how they should run their economies, their politics and all other ‘civilised and modern’ ways of improving their lot. As we have seen with the ‘credit ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
If you regularly read my blog, you will know that I tend to take anything sold by the ‘quote a minute’ self help American gurus with a large pinch of salt. One of the central planks of the success brigade is that if you decide where you are going, the ...
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
I am not so sure why but this story from the BBC website made me sad. I think, but I am not sure, it has something to do with ‘5 minutes of fame’ or is there a sense that there is much more to the story than meets the eye?
“The ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
If you happen to be one of the millions of people who either read or listen to the success self-help gurus that the USA seems to be able to generate in their thousands sprouting such terms as NLP, the Secret, 10 habits and other such like, the you would recognise ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
"Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop work. But then they’re more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that’s true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
The number of men applying for teacher training has risen sharply because of the recession, says the body responsible for training teachers. There was an over 50% rise in the number of men applying to be primary school teachers; see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8550506.stm for the story.
I have to ask myself whether the ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
'I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured - Identity Crisis at the Cape', an "historical documentary film to explore the legacy of Apartheid through the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured community" came to my notice recently via a Facebook page collating Zimbabwean mixed race history mainly through photographs. Channel 4’s recent documentary ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
This morning, my son gave me one of those school photograph packs from school. You know the ones I mean? Where the schools get the photographer in and then encourage us, the gullible parents, to pay over the odds for the photographs? I do understand that school get a cut ...
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