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...