Does listening to influencers make sense?

Having 'influencers' to speak at conferences is always a slightly risky option. Such people are not the 'rule' in our societ...

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MLMs and pyramid schemes

I have written before about multi-level marketing (MLM) companies ( here ), which are effectively pyramid selling. Those companies say that ...

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Short-term thinking and poverty

I watched a very interesting TED talk a while ago, about poor people and short-term thinking. It doesn't seem to matter - according to...

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Book Review: Sarah Knight

I am not usually a huge fan of self-help books. However, two great reads inhaled over the past few weeks include Sarah Knight's "...

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Humanity is building a machine

Don Tapscott talked on TED in 2012 about his 'four principles for an open world', leading off by saying that today's young peopl...

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Fake it Until You Become it

If you have haven't Amy Cuddy before, she is a US Social Psychologist who teaches at Harvard and researches body language. She develope...

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Knowledge is an absolute good

I have just been listening to Ken Jennings, he of Jeopardy fame (and who was beaten by IBM's "Watson" super-computer), talk ...

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