Habits and streaks

I think most of us know that "A streak is something – anything, really – that happens over a period of time without a break. It’s a typ...

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Survivor guilt

I think I first experienced survivor guilt when working for a corporate where staff were made redundant all around me, yet I still remained....

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The shit sandwich

  (Grant, 2024)   Once upon a time, in the long, long ago when I worked in a corporate, I remember being taught about the "shit sandwic...

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Responses to stress

The work of Lazarus and Folkman has strongly influenced our thinking around stress since the mid-1980s (Biggs et al., 2017). Called the ...

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Human Capability Approach, not Human Capital Theory

The human capital school of thought arose at the University of Chicago, with human resources being treated explicitly as a form of capital, ...

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The History of the World

Ah: I am coming late to this party, but - just in case you haven't heard of this resource - Columbia University has a series of lectur...

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Nations and Nationality

There was an interesting question on Quora recently, where a member asked "As a Welsh [person], why, when I'm from the UK am I au...

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Everything was better when I was growing up...

Going to Hell in a Handcart (Soyer, 24 July 2017). We humans are really strange creatures. I have been watching the rise of a fascinat...

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The Truth about Resigning

Of late I have had several discussions about the reasons why staff move on, and it seems to me that there are two key barriers to communic...

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Theories: patterns of behaviour

The OED defines a theory as being "A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general ...

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