While travelling in a place called Halmahera in Eastern Indonesia at Easter, I became one of very few visitors (less than 20 perhaps) ever to see a bird called the Invisible Rail (check it out, it's real!), and today we all kind of had the 'invisible gorilla' experience...
Check out more of these here http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html and post your comments - make it clear which part or parts you are talking about.
Friday, 25 October 2013
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Can we build up 'moral muscles'?
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20131007-the-morality-muscle
I attended a lecture the other day (see http://www.rgshk.org.hk/public/event.php?pageId=54&eventId=573) at which it was suggested that one stumbling block to China's further growth is a quite deep-seated lack of morality (or perhaps more correctly phrased, ethics) in its financial/economic/industrial sector, which means trusted, quality brands are proving difficult to establish. One questioner from the floor suggested that "isn't it like that everywhere?", and to some extent it was agreed that it was, but equally it was pointed out that, say, Heinz didn't become a trusted 'superbrand' by producing tainted baked beans, and Glaxo didn't become a world leader by creating capsules for medicines using gelatine that was unfit for human consumption.
The hyperlinked article entitled "Managers: Train your brain for ethical decisions" explores the degree to which ethics can be cultivated. This is related to Ethics (an area of knowledge) and emotion (a way of knowing) and perhaps more...
After reading it what comments do you have? Post by Wednesday 23rd October.
I attended a lecture the other day (see http://www.rgshk.org.hk/public/event.php?pageId=54&eventId=573) at which it was suggested that one stumbling block to China's further growth is a quite deep-seated lack of morality (or perhaps more correctly phrased, ethics) in its financial/economic/industrial sector, which means trusted, quality brands are proving difficult to establish. One questioner from the floor suggested that "isn't it like that everywhere?", and to some extent it was agreed that it was, but equally it was pointed out that, say, Heinz didn't become a trusted 'superbrand' by producing tainted baked beans, and Glaxo didn't become a world leader by creating capsules for medicines using gelatine that was unfit for human consumption.
The hyperlinked article entitled "Managers: Train your brain for ethical decisions" explores the degree to which ethics can be cultivated. This is related to Ethics (an area of knowledge) and emotion (a way of knowing) and perhaps more...
After reading it what comments do you have? Post by Wednesday 23rd October.
Thursday, 3 October 2013
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