At the start of the month came the news that a teacher was suspended over comments made on Facebook:
in which she said she felt like a “warden” overseeing “future criminals.”
Three weeks ago two Social Media conferences took place in London and both shared a frustration: utopian quotes that sound great in theory but can be hard to put in to practice. Here’s a sample:…
Earlier this week, a report was published claiming proof that alcohol causes more harm than heroin or crack. I believe it is wrong. But I’m no professor so best listen to the expert first (source: BBC News) It’s all well and good using multi-criteria-decision-analysis and other long phrases that academics favour. But the judgements appear [...]
Just over four years ago, I wrote a post called Sticky Information. It’s a topic I rarely see discussed but it can have a big influence on our decisions and actions. If we ‘like’ a piece of information, we will cling on to it often in the face of any attempts to alter that state.
One of the explanations for why change in the workplace can fail, particularly the introduction of systems built on new technology, is ‘culture’, as in the culture of the organisation is not ready for the new technology or the solution (e.g. sharing knowledge) doesn’t fit with the culture of the organisation. That isn’t an explanation. It’s an excuse. [...]
