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• Business Visionaries

  
  Organizational Transformation by Asif J. Mir — Authority: 129
  The days of doing business as we have been doing in the past are gone. We can no longer afford to continue using traditional approaches in managing our companies. Executives or organizations that insist on clinging to outmoded ways of thinking will find themselves standing on the sidelines as new traditions are being ...
  13 hours ago

• The altruism instinct

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Theres a reason that all social groups should fall apart, which can be illustrated by the following scenario. You are a cattle farmer, sharing open pasture with 100 other farmers, and are trying to decide whether to add another animal to your herd. Like any rational person, you weigh the costs and benefits of this ...
  1 day ago

• Bookmarks for November 21st through November 23rd

  
  LostFocus — Authority: 127
  These are my links for November 21st through November 23rd: Android is splintering, just not how you think it is… – RussellBeattie.com – Full Frontal conference in Brighton, England (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) – urlimg.com – The URL-based image processing service – Addicted To Being ...
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• Will We Play Harps in Heaven? And Will the Playing of Such Harps Constitute Hell? Oh, and Are We Already Playing Those Harps?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  Where did the idea first come from that the saints in heaven play harps? I don’t know if this is the first Christian reference to harp playing in heaven, but it does go back a few hundred years. It’s from the ending of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678): [A]nd lo, as they [Christian and ...
  2 days ago

• Plants Have a Social Life Too

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 772
  After decades of seeing plants as passive recipients of fate, scientists have found them capable of behaviors once thought unique to animals. Some plants even appear to be social, favoring family while pushing strangers from the neighborhood. Research into plant sociality is still young, with many questions ...
  5 days ago

• Whats Cooler Than Dancing in a Train Station?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  What Are Some Creative Ways To Get People Interested In A Giving Campaign? Id like to hear from the Metaverse from any marketers, non-profit superstars, or performers about how you have created interest in a campaign, performance or idea you want to get out to the public. Id like to hear responses that go beyond ...
  6 days ago

• Positive Psychology - The Science of Optimal Human Functioning

  
  Shrunken Mind w/Dr. John Schinnerer - Using Positive Psychology to Master Life — Authority: 110
  Free teleclassPositive Psychology – The Science of Optimal Human Functioning11/18/09 (Wednesday)6 pm PST/9 pm ESTwith John Schinnerer, Ph.D.,Author, positive psychology coach, speaker, amusing guySimply call 212-461-5903 and enter Pin 3474# Positive psychology is the scientific study of optimal functioning, the ...
  6 days ago

• Play with your colleagues, and write a paper about your experience

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 494
  Who has not dreamed of playing a crank on ones colleagues? And then get a paper out of it? This paper is not quite about a crank, it is about an experiment that João Ramos and Benno Torgler played on their colleagues. Many departments have a common room for people to get coffee, chat and hang out. Ramos and Torgler ...
  1 week ago

• SOAPBOX of the week: pitch in to get paid back

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 107
  “Service is the rent you pay for room on this earth.”     – Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman, educator & author Fifty bucks says, many of you would have laughed this one off when you were the omniscient age of 18, and assumed it was one of your parent’s devious mantras.  That self-centered mentality ...
  1 week ago

• Why arent we all in this together?

  
  Deepak Chopra & Intent — Authority: 119
  This is a country where the haves help the have-nots. The Houses passage of sweeping health care reform proved that such a spirit is still alive, as it is during wars and depressions. But the massive holdouts in the House vote show that the last thirty years of reactionary policies have weakened the altruism of ...
  1 week ago

• Cooperating bacteria are vulnerable to slackers

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 633
  As a species, we hate cheaters. Just last month, I blogged about our innate desire to punish unfair play but its a sad fact that cheaters are universal. Any attempt to cooperate for a common good creates windows of opportunity for slackers. Even bacteria colonies have their own layabouts. Recently, two new studies ...
  1 week ago

• Who’s Really Nuts, 20/20 or the ‘Crazy Cat Ladies’?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The ABC show 20/20 recently treated its viewers to an all-out condescending pity-party for the women it calls ‘crazy cat ladies. The segment hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, with an accompanying article online , was so over-the-top that it was almost a parody of itself. The article begins this way: "Single. Female. ...
  1 week ago

• The American Rebirth Movement -- Part 2

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 140
  Anyone who has worked in business for any period of time understands the complex nature of competition and cooperation. In real estate, if the broker is working with a home buyer as a buyer agent, the broker must cooperate with everyone involved in the transaction, although there are competing interests. The agent ...
  1 week ago

• On the impact of religion on social trust

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 494
  All religions I know of advocate that one should care and trust others. But "others" needs definition: in many cases it means others from the same religion, to the exclusion of other religions. Thus, if religiosity is higher, does this lead to higher social trust? It is not obvious as more religious people may trust ...
  1 week ago

• The Charter for Compassion

  
  The Greater Good Blog — Authority: 113
  When renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong won the coveted TED prize , she was asked to make a single wish, one that the TED community would help her achieve. Her modest request? To unite the world around compassion. Now, one year later, she’s helped us all take one step closer toward making that wish come ...
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• Should Someone Receiving Government Aid Give to Charity?

  
  My Life ROI, Getting the Best Return On Life — Authority: 557
  I was having a philosophical argument with myself (completely sane, right?) about the moral righteousness of someone giving to charity while receiving government aid. This came about after reading a letter to a columnist in the New York Times Magazine. The letter goes on to state: I helped prepare a tax return for ...
  2 weeks ago

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  Rhetoric & Rockets — Authority: 119
  Is Space Advocacy a Matter of Altruism or Self-Interest?The short answer is yes...to both.I had the pleasure of reading a paper by my friend Dr. OZMG concerning the role of altruism in particular professions--in the case of her paper, people going to school to become counselors--but the paper caused me to think about ...
  2 weeks ago

• Connected And Loving It

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 122
  Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives by James Fowler. James Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis, MD may be my generations Watson and Crick. These social scientist have astonishing research that make me want to lose weight for the greater good. Losing weight sucks. Gaining ...
  2 weeks ago

• SOAPBOX of the week: elbow-greased responsibility

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 107
  Folks, this is a snapshot of life’s self-inflicted aggravations…step back and look at the Bigger Picture and see how daily avoidance in responsibility breeds issues larger than society can handle.  Just think about it… “Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.”     – Eric Hoffer, social ...
  2 weeks ago

• XYZ

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 129
   Taking a moment from time to time to examine and attempt to define your intentions in your writing activities produces more questions than answers, which is surely Natures way of reminding you you are still alive.  There were times when, to be sure, you were not alive, bored instead or wallowing not so much in the ...
  2 weeks ago

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