Walking by my local barber on the weekend I noticed it was as busy as ever. Packed with people sitting, looking bored. And I wondered, as I always do, why no-one was reading. I wonder the same thing in the doctors office. And on the tube. Why do people choose to be bored, rather than [...]
Last Friday we sent out the first edition of our new Denny Business Development Digest. The topic was motivation, “The Candle Problem”. Interestingly, last week’s Economist, which also came out on Friday morning, covered the same topic. Click Here We both looked at some work on motivation done by Karl Duncker and Sam Glucksberg, recently reexamined [...]
How positive thinking fooled America and the World The new book by Barbara Ehrenreich This really sad and bitter lady who claims to have carried out scientific research on the subject does a great disservice to scientific research which is used as bedrock for credibility. Ms Ehrenreich claims that positive thinking is a tyranny, it is a quack [...]
Is all this snow making you dream of a holiday in the sun? And did you happen to see the travel section of the Telegraph on the 3rd of January? The headline of this blog was the headine of their article. A nice little article suggesting some challenges we might like to take on in [...]
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