If capitalism is broken is social innovation a way to fix it?
Kate Carruthers Over the past several years I have come to think that capitalism as practised in the western world is fundamentally broken. Even before the global financial crisis (GFC) this feeling…
July 2011
Meditation sounds like a good idea #caturday
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Generational theory cannot explain how people behave
Quite often there’s an article that bundles us all up into handy age-based cohorts (a.k.a. ‘generations’). Behavioural phenomena are neatly explained by the characteristics of the particular age cohort or…
Why do bad leaders happen to good people? #notw #hackergate
There have been astonishing revelations in London about leaders in the News International group of companies and in the UK Parliament. Perhaps even more shocking is the disclosure of the…
Staying human
I’ve had a very lucky life in many ways. But along with that I’ve lost a lot of people in my immediate family over the years – parents, aunts, cousins,…
There can be only one (and it’s Caturday)
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Bad management, ethics and philosophy: what can we learn from News of the World?
The demise of a 168 year old (and reportedly profitable) newspaper in Britain called the News of the World (NoTW) gives us some valuable insights on a number of levels.…
Why LOLcats are important
Many people have pondered my fascination with lolcats. The answer is simple: humour using animals as a proxy allows us to delve deeply into the human condition, to reveal our…
What cats really think
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This is deeper than you’d suspect for a lolcat
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