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- Is It Really So Nice To Be Nice?
Sep 3, 2009
In our politically correct world in our obsessive attempt not to offend we have sacrificed both sincerity and authenticity. Niceness has replaced...
Category: Self Improvement
- Budapest Tales: A Case Study In Narcissism
Sep 3, 2009
Narcissists are driven by an insatiable need to always look good, and to always win. Their belief in their own greatness creates an extreme sense...
Category: Psychology
- Is Libertarianism Nothing More Than The Glorification Of Greed And Irresponsibility?
Sep 3, 2009
Under the guise of upholding the noble ideal of libertarianism we have been tricked into ignoring simple common sense. It is in fact a thinly...
Category: Politics
- Are We Trapped In A Web of Myths
Sep 2, 2009
Is it possible that our way of seeing the world, our way of interacting with those around, and our very sense of our own being have been engineered?
Category: Sociology
- Has Science Replaced Religion As The New Orthodoxy?
Sep 1, 2009
It seems that people of today hold onto their belief in conventional linear science with the same degree of conviction that those living in the...
Category: New Age
- An Intimate Glimpe At The Puppeteers Who Are Pulling Our Strings
Sep 1, 2009
Behind all the spin and shenagans which have been taking place on Wall Street is a new breed of player. They are cocky, unrepentent, and feel...
Category: Society and Culture
- In Nature There Are No Straight Lines
Sep 1, 2009
The way we think, the way we perceive the world, is not innate, but learned. It is an artificial system of logic which reduces the complexity of...
Category: New Age
- Is Ours A Herd Morality?
Sep 1, 2009
While we may believe that we all have our own moral rudder,very often our moral judements are simple imported from the tribe we happen to belong to.
Category: Philosophy
- Be Careful What You Wish For!
Sep 1, 2009
As much as we all think that having choice is good, and having unlimited choice is better, that is not the case. In fact some of the most miserable...
Category: Humor
- Do Tribes Dominate Our Culture And Rule Our Companies?
Aug 30, 2009
As much as we prefer to see ourselves as autonamous individuals, in reality we live in a tribal society. This extends to our social life, our...
Category: Coaching
- Are We All Living Inside A Grand Illusion?
Aug 30, 2009
Even though on an objective level we live in a society of great abundance this is not the case. Much of our choice is illusory, as our lives are...
Category: Motivational
- Are We All Being Led Down the Garden Path?
Aug 28, 2009
The Libertarians belief that the free market economy is a self-regulating mechanism is similar to a gardener stating that gardens do not need...
Category: Finance
- How To Play The Players
Aug 28, 2009
Smooth manipulators abound in our society. As much as we may lament their existence they are a fact of life. Does it not make sense then, that we...
Category: Society and Culture
- The Challenge That Groupthink Presents To The Company
Aug 27, 2009
The pressure to conform to the way those around us think, the groupthink, is so great that it begs the question: Is there such a thing as free will...
Category: Organizational
- Have We Created A New Leviathan For Ourselves?
Aug 27, 2009
With the ascendence of a cult of narcissism, our world is turning into a chaotic hell in which it is every man for himself. This is the last phase...
Category: Society and Culture
- The Challenge To the Organization Presented By Impression Management
Aug 27, 2009
One key determinant of corporate governance which is rarely spoken of is the political environment within the organization. When manipulative...
Category: Corporate
- Nunzio: The Anatomy of the Player
Aug 26, 2009
There are those among us who are born manipulators. These players manage to thrive in every social setting. It is a matter of social survival for...
Category: Society and Culture
- The Myth of Scarcity
Aug 24, 2009
The illusion of scarcity is one of the cornerstones of the matrix we all live in. It creates a sense of lack, as well promoting hostility and...
Category: Society and Culture
- The Cult of Marketing
Jun 28, 2009
As a society we have all been indoctrinated into a giant cult. It is the cult of marketing. We experience ourselves and each other as brands,...
Category: Management
- The Economic Crisis: How We Were Played!
Jun 26, 2009
The economic crisis of 2008 was not an unfortunate fluke, a perfect storm of negative influences which just happened to come together at a point in...
Category: Politics
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