Perhaps you are familiar with the phrase six degrees of separation but do you know where it comes from? Scientists, initially mathematicians and later psychologists, have been interested in how ‘connected’ we are in this world since the early 20th century. Some math dudes (and they were all dudes) tried to figure out how many […]
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This article from Canadian Business was sent to me by a student in the MHRM program. It certainly catches one’s attention – especially for those working or teaching in the field of HR. On the surface, it appears as though Bruce Poon is arguing that there is no place for HR in progressive organizations. The […]
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There is a very interesting article about Steve Jobs in the New Yorker magazine written by one of the most gifted non-fiction writers around today, Malcolm Gladwell. The piece asks us to rethink the contributions that Steve Jobs made to the world. Since his death, Steve Jobs has been called a large scale visionary. Gladwell […]
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Yes, that is right. I said it. Daniel Kahneman is a rock star. I recognize that the man in the photo above bears no resemblance to Mick Jagger or Axl Rose but I have to admit that if I saw him out in public I would elbow my girlfriend in the gut and giggle as […]
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Last Saturday Anne McIlroy wrote a piece for the Globe and Mail entitled ‘A workout program for your brian.’ The basic premise of the piece is that we can exercise the brain and through that exercise the brain becomes ‘smarter’! This is interesting because it flies in the face of our accepted assumptions about intelligence […]
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