A typology of disagreement
Image via Wikipedia How are differences of opinion to be characterised? That is to say, if there is more than one opinion, what is its status in relation to the others? Are there different types of...
View ArticleLeadership Mismatch – what Napoleon can tell us about the evolution of leaders
The Emperor Napoleon was a consummate manipulator of other people’s expectations regarding leadership roles, and here’s how you can be too… In an RSA lecture Matthew Taylor engages Mark van Vugt,...
View ArticleFalse Signal?
Image via Wikipedia “My father told me the oceans were limitless, but that was a false signal.” NYT on collapsing fish stocks in the South Pacific. In Mackerel’s Plunder, Hints of Epic Fish Collapse...
View ArticleWhy do People play the Lottery?
Image via Wikipedia Well, why do they? It’s the kind of question only those who don’t do it would bother asking. I admit I’m one of them. The lottery is a mystery to me – self-evidently daft, like a...
View ArticleA two-bit theory of social reality
Image via Wikipedia It is not obvious whether the world is analogue or binary, continuous or discrete. It’s a live question and the subject of a recent essay contest set up by the Foundational...
View ArticleFriends, colleagues, or partners – what’s your favourite collaboration style?
Matthew Taylor of the RSA, blogs about collaboration styles in education… Oiling the System.
View ArticleDiscussion of motivational reasoning
Discussing motivational insights for Transition with Stephen Rollnick and Chris Johnstone (in 2006) –...
View ArticleThey saw a conspiracy
Is the UN Using Bike Paths to Achieve World Domination? – Atlantic Mobile – http://pulse.me/s/5KIjE
View Article“They expected nature to be on their side”: Roland Huntford on Polar Exploration
http://m.thebrowser.com/interviews/roland-huntford-on-polar-exploration?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
View ArticleCo-ops are Big: Egalitarian business models take off
How do you feel about the fact that the United Nations is sponsoring 2012 as the year of the co-operative? Shareable: Co-ops are Big: Charles Gould on the Int’l Year of the Co-op – http://pulse.me/s/66nFt
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