Evidence-Based Management Site

If you’re interested in Evidence-Based Management (EBM), check out this site, by two of my favourite authors, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton. Here’s a taste of their of their Five Principles of EBM: Face the hard facts, and build a culture in which people...

TED.com – a treasure trove of diversity

I can’t recall how I discovered TED.com, but it was probably due to both an abundance of spare time and a lack of focus which afforded me the luxury to follow seemingly random links. From TED.com: “TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out...

Are we really impressed by negative people?

Have you ever been impressed by a critical evaluation of a topic or a person? How about a negative critical evaluation? I have, and I was so affected. And I have also been with people who are universally critical; they were hard work, to the point where it was almost...

Organisational Stories and Myths

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...