by Glyn | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
What are we to make of organisational stories and myths? It seems as though yarns, gossip, stories, and myths have universal appeal, but should we take them at face value as a representation of a truth, reality, or facts of an event? People such as Yiannis Gabriel...
by Glyn | Feb 23, 2012 | Blog
I had in the recent past found many references to Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) (Wikipedia), most notably his view that “everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to...
by Glyn | Feb 22, 2012 | Blog
The term halo effect was first used by E. A. Thorndike in 1920 (O’Neal & Mills, 1969), and refers to our error of logic of attributing characteristics to objects or people based on irrelevant traits, such as assuming one person is more intelligent than...
by Glyn | Feb 22, 2012 | Blog
Before you read another business book, read Phil Rosenzweig’s The Halo Effect … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers (Rosenzweig, 2007), it could save your career. This book ranks as one of the most important books anyone, especially people in...
by Glyn | Feb 22, 2012 | Blog
Well here goes for post number two … One of my passions is learning, especially about how the world and its infestation of humans really work. Not how you or I think the world and its infestation works, but based on verifiable evidence, how they really work. By...
