Posted in Mouthing Off, Robert's Editorials by: Robert Bacal
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30 May
Gary wrote:
> So I guess the point I’m trying to make is that often those who are the
> most vocal about the “correct” way to call someone or some group of
> people, etc., that these people are perhaps not as comfortable with their
> own selves as perhaps they would like to be.
Gary, I’m sorry, but [...]
Posted in Mouthing Off by: Robert Bacal
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02 May
Bill Harris wrote:
> Reinhard Sprenger wrote (in _Mythos Motivation_) something to the effect
> that “All motivation (actions designed to get people to do that which they
> don’t want to do) is demotivating (leads towards decreasing their desire
> to do what you want them to do because they see through the efforts at
> control).”
Good point. Actually [...]
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02 May
A brief comment on Who Moved My Cheese and the apparent popularity of dumbed down, stupid management books!
I haven’t read it, but just a comment on the genre of short, readable and cute, but sometimes relatively contentless books.
I am kinda ambivalent, as a writer, re: these kinds of things. On the one hand I can’t [...]