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My review of Potential: Workplace Violence Prevention and Your Organizational Success by Bill Whitmore, will be published in the April issue of The Workplace Violence Prevention eReport.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Potential
I've been critical of the promotional materials for Bill Whitmore's new book so it was only fair that I read it...
My review of Potential: Workplace Violence Prevention and Your Organizational Success by Bill Whitmore, will be published in the April issue of The Workplace Violence Prevention eReport.
My review of Potential: Workplace Violence Prevention and Your Organizational Success by Bill Whitmore, will be published in the April issue of The Workplace Violence Prevention eReport.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Like Jelly Bean Recipes
Sometimes challenging podcasts are best consumed in unlikely little handfuls...
I got a little depressed the other day listening to Jeffrey Sachs LSE talk titled The Price of Civilization. Bitter, but worth it.
Then I had a helping of About Time, which partly lifted the weight of Sachs' gloomy analysis. Hmmn, better.
I added a Lean Start Up talk by Eric Ries for a taste of creative destruction and reflective leadership, which mixed with About Time to create a sense that there are many smart people with good ideas that can help us dig our way out of our current troubles. Hopefully spicy.
Topping it all off with The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalised, by Owen Flanagan left me feeling balanced and sufficiently suffonsified. A smooth finish.
They don't look like they'd go good together, but they become something special once you start chewing. Try it, you might like it. Better yet, share your creative learning recipes with the Eclectic Breakfast.
Seriously, someone make grass, dirt, and soap flavored jellybeans? Yes, apparently they do...blech!
Seriously, someone make grass, dirt, and soap flavored jellybeans? Yes, apparently they do...blech!
Image credit: Michelle Hume
Like a Mere Orange Peel on a Giant Orange of Metal
Mercury is a giant ball of iron...
The Messenger robot explorer has been orbiting the planet Mercury for a year now. The innermost planet in our solar system looks a little like our moon on the outside, but looks are deceiving. Under its thin crust Mercury is mostly iron. Like most of my interest in astronomy, this doesn't affect day to day life here on planet Earth very much I suppose, but understanding the cosmos and our place in it is always a good thing. That, and having a reserve of nerdy cocktail party trivia worthy of Cliff Claven can come in handy from time to time (or so I'm told).
Image credit: Case Western University by way of Discover Magazine
From Your Lips To God's Ears
The business of security has shifted from protecting companies from risks, to being the new source of competitive advantage . . .
Phil Wood is the head of Security Studies at Buckinghamshire New University and a prolific blogger at bucks new uni security. He reminded us of an excellent paper by Rachel Briggs and
Charlie Edwards published in 2006 by Demos titled The Business of Resilience: Corporate Security for the 21st Century. If you want to participate in a paradigm shift that is badly needed in the security industry read this paper in detail.
Charlie Edwards published in 2006 by Demos titled The Business of Resilience: Corporate Security for the 21st Century. If you want to participate in a paradigm shift that is badly needed in the security industry read this paper in detail.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Price of Civilization
Economics and ethics after the fall...
Marvelously challenging and more than a little depressing podcast (or video if you prefer) of a lecture presented by Professor Jeffrey Sachs at the LSE in December 2011 (I'm catching up on my podcasts steadily but slowly). Sobering stuff, but what choice have we got?
UPDATE: Another interesting LSE lecture (a panel talk actually) titled, About Time, examines some of our social and economic assumptions about the length of the work week in western nations. It feels a little like a counterpoint to Sachs' talk and is a little less dire. This one was recorded in January of this year.
UPDATE: Another interesting LSE lecture (a panel talk actually) titled, About Time, examines some of our social and economic assumptions about the length of the work week in western nations. It feels a little like a counterpoint to Sachs' talk and is a little less dire. This one was recorded in January of this year.
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