Costing women's work

As Lucassen says, "women’s work is often overlooked compared to men’s" (2021, p. 1): I have written about this before (here), but ...

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So what is Maslow's hammer?

If you have not heard of "Maslow's hammer" before, you still may have heard the saying "it is tempting, if the only tool ...

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Theory X and Theory Y

Maslow's work on his Hierarchy of Needs was transferred from psychology to management, where "Douglas McGregor [..] encountered it ...

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Financial literacy quiz

In 2012, the OECD surveyed member nations on the financial literacy of their citizens, asking eight questions covering the "basic knowl...

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Utopia versus slavery

I was re-reading Lucassen's book  The Story of Work last year, where he talked about a dichotomy of views in his introduction which led...

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The theory of externalities

In the business world, we can lower our cost by pushing what we can onto others: by externalising costs or clean-up. This has become a field...

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Women's work

I was reading "The Story of Work" (Lucassen, 2021) this week, encountering "Today, most people on this planet spend more than...

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The rise and fall of Cadbury

I was pondering about the rise and fall of Cadbury's chocolate in New Zealand recently. Cadbury was a once great brand - but was brought...

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PowerPoint and the Business School lecturer

Coming, as I do, from a business school background, I was quite struck by an article I read on the Times Higher Education online earlier thi...

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Doing Business in New Zealand

I answered a question on Quora (2021) a while ago about how New Zealand compares to other nations in the ease of doing business. It was easy...

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Business as usual & MIQ

I feel that the privileged business world we used to live in has - for now - been suspended. We once used to freely travel internationally, ...

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Costing quotes

Having been in business since 1997 - where does the time go?! - I have found that costing client work for a quote is a very tricky busines...

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The pyramid scheme that was Maslow

Source: Thompkins-Jones (24 July 2014) In 1943, a psychologist called Abraham Maslow presented a framework in a paper proposing that we ...

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Evidenced-based teaching

Mary Parker Follett said, "Business [...] is pioneer work [... using] the organized relations of human beings, [and] seems to me to o...

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Barriers & benefits for NZ business

I was pondering about the barriers that New Zealand businesses have, and I came up with a list of key issues, which are: Economies of s...

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Are all Business Schools bad?

Earlier this year, Martin Parker (27 April 2018) talked about why - in his opinion - business schools are terrible places. I was quite sur...

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New Zealand's most complained about companies in 2018

Earlier this year, a list of NZ's most complained about companies appeared in the New Zealand Herald, which can be read here (Shaw, 1...

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