What, Why & How do we Know ?
One major reason why “democracy” by popular vote is the worst form of governance (apart from all the others). (Consensus vs tyranny of the majority, etc. Concensus = Parker-Follett integrationism.) Interesting review of David Graeber (Occupy Wall Street) book The Democracy Project by Dave Pollard.
Great interview of Jim Al-Khalili with Caspar Melville of the Rationalist Association. So much better face for the BHA. [An] introduction to the man who has recently become, at least in principle, the most important and high-profile non-believer in Britain. In January Al-Khalili was confirmed as President of the British Humanist Association. He has been [a … Continue reading “Jim’s The Man @BHAhumanists”
Dan Pink’s “Drive” caught on as a best seller in the last couple of years in promoting the concept of “Motivation 3.0”. Of course, the terminology catches the fashion of the internet generation, and good luck if the brief readable book, with its “Toolkit” of ideas does lead to more management catching on in more … Continue reading “Motivation 3.0 – Pink Does Maslow”
An excellent RSA (Royal Society of Arts) animation of a lecture by Iain McGilchrist. (Hat tip to David Morey on Facebook for the link.) Blogged several references to reading McGilchrist’s “The Master and his Emissary” but never wrote a complete review in one post – It so knocked me out, it led me into other … Continue reading “McGilchrist’s Divided Brain”
Never been a fan of management metrics – it’s all too easy for lazy managers to measure what is easy to count, and not deal with what really matters. Even Einstein said “not all that counts can be counted”. However this Forbes piece by James Slavet nails five valuable “metrics” worth assessing subjectively – starting … Continue reading “Contacting the Sweet Spot”
Leon sent me a link to this paper a couple of years ago, to which I responded “interesting” – he knows I’m interested in memes. I didn’t actually read beyond the title until today. The essence of memes is that there is something “self-serving” about patterns of information (*1) which is independent of any rationally … Continue reading “Project Management Memetics”
This kind of quote reminds me why I’m a big fan of Mary Parker-Follett. [Specifically this.] ‘The most important thing to remember about unity is — that there is no such thing. There is only unifying. You cannot get unity and expect it to last a day–or five minutes.’ Quoted by Rosa Zubizarreta quoting Albie … Continue reading “Unity is a Process”
An incomplete review, notes only from this excellent article. Hat tip to Sam Norton in his comment below. And some good links in the piece, eg to Stanley Fish. Explanation … avoiding reductionism. Terry Lectures on video – nb Terry Eagleton joke ? “It was I felt, characteristic of the delightfully informal nature of American society … Continue reading “Barbara Herrnstein Smith”