10,000 steps a day – day 11 – dissertation done!
My dissertation is officially finished. Yay! Well, almost: I will proof read it again tomorrow before submitting all 9,000 lovingly crafted words. But, done. Which brings me to the end of my MSc, too....
View ArticleDiscursive strategies used by sales leaders in value co-creation
Today, this amazing thing happened. A short paper based on my MSc research into the discursive strategies used by sales leaders has been included in the programme for the 2017 BPS division of...
View Article(Probably) the end
Hello! *Blows away the cobwebs and dusts furiously* I bet you thought that I’d forgotten about you all as I haven’t written anything here since May. Well, after my excellent attempts at procrastination...
View ArticleChoosing your tribe – them and us
“In Ireland you must choose your tribe. Reason has nothing to do with it.” So wrote J.G. Farrell in his 1970 novel Troubles. While much of what has happened politically in 2016 has felt both tribal...
View ArticleWhat makes an accomplished negotiator?
There are few empirical studies outside of academia that have looked into what makes an accomplished negotiator. However, in 1978(*), Neil Rackham and John Carlisle of the Huthwaite Group conducted one...
View ArticleYes, we are all individuals!
Josh Friedman’s recent article for Time, “It’s Okay to Be a Coward About Cancer“, is an interesting piece about the language that surrounds the disease. It’s written from the perspective of someone who...
View ArticlePoll: 73% say ‘Brexit dividend’ is a lie
A poll conducted on Monday 18th June 2018 found that 73% of those asked said the claim of a ‘Brexit dividend’ was a lie. 11% of respondents said that there would be a Brexit dividend,…Continue Reading...
View ArticleGraphology: Mere wishful thinking?
A graphologist (handwriting analyst) was interviewed on BBC Breakfast this morning. Resisting the urge to immediately rant on Twitter about the pseudoscience of graphology, I headed upstairs to my...
View ArticleThriving at work – #DOPconf 2019 review
Shortly after I’d been discharged from hospital last September, I made a decision to attend the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychologists annual conference (DOPconf to its...
View ArticleThe brain is (mostly) not a computer
I recently had my attention drawn to this essay from May 2016 – The Empty Brain – written by psychologist Robert Epstein (thanks Andrew). In it, Epstein argues that the dominant information processing...
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