Thursday 26 March 2009

Reading on the Stepper- 26th March

You can plough through a lot in 97 minutes!

Great piece by Diane L. Coutu in the Harvard Business Review entitled "How Resilience Works."
Makes me want to go and read Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" right now.

And this is good- a quote from Karl E. Weick, a prof of organisational behaviour at the University of Michigan Business School. in Ann Arbor "There is good evidence that when people are put under pressure, they regress to their most habituated ways of responding.... What we do not expect under life-threatening pressure is creativity."

Excellent piece by Eli Kintishc of Science Magazine
"Projections of Climate Change Go from Bad to Worse, Scientists Report"
Yup, we're toast.

Heartening, if you want to delude yourself, is
"Vision 2050: A Sustainable future for Cheshire West and Chester"

Personally, when I imagine the future of mankind (sic) I imagine a carbon footprint, stamping on a human face, forever...

I also read Crain's Manchester Business.
All good stuff, with an especially amusing piece on the massive impending bunfith between Peel and Manchester city Council "Saviour's Gateway or Trojan horse?"

And Monday's FT, of which the stand-out piece, amid stiff competition, is "MBA arrogance and the myth of leadership" by Philip Delves Broughton.

And I even worked up a proper sweat for a change....

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