How do you see yourself in your mind’s eye? I guess it’s easiest to learn from other people and you construct your self-image accordingly. Have you tried in your way to be free? I have always observed what I don’t like and tried to avoid doing it. We are told…

How to Cook a Wolf is a food book written in 1942 by American food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, on how to survive the privations of war, the wolf is the one at your door. A 2020 review of the book by Sarah Ditum in the Guardian, recommended the…

“History is written by the winners” is a misattributed quote by victors from Napoleon to Churchill and is a convenient truth. The same applies to dreams which have been a topic for translation for thousands of years. Dream interpreters were really the entrepreneurs of old — the successful ones changed…

Laurence J. Peter wrote about corporate life in 1969 “The Peter Principle” that, in every organisation competent people are continuously promoted, until they reach their level of incompetence. If true this would mean every organisation becomes incompetent over time. He said that it was not necessarily incompetence at the new…

The MIT Sloan Management Review on “The Great Resignation” surveyed the resaons 34 million people gave for resigning their jobs and Toxis Management was 10.4 time more likely to cause voluntary attrition than salary. I detailed this in my recent post “There are weeks when decades happen” and now I…