It was some time after people first started using another person’s labour to turn a profit, that the process was termed capitalism, the method by which the few were extracting a ‘labour surplus’ from their workers.
Similarly, some time after the big tech companies, like Google and Facebook, started extracting a ‘behavioural surplus’ from their customers, we have now been given a term for it –...
A psychologist (Julia Shaw) has pointed to what she calls ‘social contagion’ as a source of harm in a business and company context.
What she means is also known as behavioural contagion – a type of social influence. It has been defined as ‘the propensity for certain behaviour exhibited by one person to be copied by others who are either in the vicinity of the original ‘actor’, or who have...
It is the basis of government, seemingly, that politicians in office can leave when they want to. They can resign with immediate effect and they’re off!
Equally, a politician can be summarily dismissed by the PM, just like that, and they’re on their bike with no recourse.
It is the basis of employment that you can’t do either of the above, without notice or justification.
For example, one...
The basic question in education and training is: how best to give individuals the skills they need in order to help themselves and society to develop?
Sathnam Sanghera in his piece for The Times (20th July 2018) addresses this with his usual insight and sagacity.
He is quite right to say that ‘politicians are pushing the sciences and maths at the expense of arts and humanities at the precise...
There have been, and always will be, many, many analyses of what makes each different person good at building a business. The trouble is, those doing the analysis try and look for pointers that could be replicated by others looking to achieve similar success.
The trouble is, it isn’t that easy. To even think that you can isolate the common denominators of commercial domination is an illusion...
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